About the Authors

Mantang Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mantang Qiu, Lei Xu, Xin Yang

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lei Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mantang Qiu, Lei Xu, Xin Yang

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, The First Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xin Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Mantang Qiu, Lei Xu, Xin Yang

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, The First Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xiangxiang Ding

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, The First Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jingwen Hu

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, The First Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Feng Jiang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Lin Xu

xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX); yinhero001@126.com (RY)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Rong Yin

xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX); yinhero001@126.com (RY)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTQ Lin Xu RY. Performed the experiments: MTQ Lei Xu XY XXD JWH. Analyzed the data: MTQ Lei Xu XY XXD JWH FJ Lin Xu RY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTQ Lei Xu XY XXD JWH FJ. Wrote the paper: MTQ XY Lin Xu RY.