About the Authors

Lei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Wang, Haichuan Hu, Yunjian Pan

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Haichuan Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Wang, Haichuan Hu, Yunjian Pan

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Yunjian Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Wang, Haichuan Hu, Yunjian Pan

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Rui Wang

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Yuan Li

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Lei Shen

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Yongfu Yu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Hang Li

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Deng Cai

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Yihua Sun

sun_yihua76@hotmail.com (YS); hqchen1@yahoo. com (HC)

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Haiquan Chen

sun_yihua76@hotmail.com (YS); hqchen1@yahoo. com (HC)

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China, Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW YS HC. Performed the experiments: LW HH YP YL LS. Analyzed the data: LW HH YP YY YS HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW RW HL DC. Wrote the paper: LW HH YS HC.