About the Authors

Ying Piao

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Piao, Ying Li

Affiliations Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China, Oncology Department, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

Ying Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Piao, Ying Li

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

Qian Xu

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

Jing-wei Liu

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

Cheng-zhong Xing

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-dong Xie

Affiliation Oncology Department, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, Shenyang, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

Yuan Yuan

yyuan3@mail.cmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Tumor Etiology and Screening Department of Cancer Institute and General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Prevention (China Medical University), Liaoning Provincial Education Department, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY. Performed the experiments: YP. Analyzed the data: YP YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY. Wrote the paper: YP YL QX JWL CZX YY. Collected clinical cases: CZX XDX.