About the Authors

Miao Li

Current address: Department of Oncology, Central Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Liu Huang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Hong Qiu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Qiang Fu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Wen Li

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Qianqian Yu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Li Sun

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Lihong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Guangyuan Hu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Junbo Hu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Xianglin Yuan

yxl@medmail.com.cn

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY ML. Performed the experiments: ML WL. Analyzed the data: XY ML LH WL QY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH HQ QF LS LZ GH JH. Wrote the manuscript: XY ML.