About the Authors

Can Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Can Zhou, Jian jun He

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Oncology Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Jian jun He

Contributed equally to this work with: Can Zhou, Jian jun He

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Oncology Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Jing Li

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Jin hu Fan

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Liaoning Cancer Hospital, Shen yang, Liaoning Province, China

Hong jian Yang

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Xiao ming Xie

Affiliation Department of Breast Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Zhong hua Tang

Affiliation Department of Breast-thyroid Surgery, Xiangya Sencod Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

Hui Li

Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, the Second People's Hospital of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Jia yuan Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Shu lian Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

You lin Qiao

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Rong Huang

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Pin Zhang

zhang_pin@sina.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL SlW PZ YlQ. Performed the experiments: CZ JjH PZ BZ HjY XmX ZhT HL JyL SlW PZ YlQ. Analyzed the data: CZ JjH JhF RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BZ HjY XmX ZhT HL JyL JjH JhF RH. Wrote the paper: CZ JjH PZ. Reviewed/edited the manuscript: JjH PZ.