About the Authors

Jia-Yang Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Yang Lu, Michael Lok-Man Cheung, Mei Li, Bao-Tian Huang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Michael Lok-Man Cheung

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Yang Lu, Michael Lok-Man Cheung, Mei Li, Bao-Tian Huang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Mei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Yang Lu, Michael Lok-Man Cheung, Mei Li, Bao-Tian Huang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Bao-Tian Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jia-Yang Lu, Michael Lok-Man Cheung, Mei Li, Bao-Tian Huang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Wen-Jia Xie

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Liang-Xi Xie

xieliangxi1@qq.com

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYL MC ML BTH. Performed the experiments: JYL MC ML BTH. Analyzed the data: JYL MC ML BTH WJX LXX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYL MC ML BTH WJX. Wrote the paper: JYL MC ML BTH LXX.