About the Authors

Yen-Han Tseng

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yi-Hsuan Lin

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yen-Chiang Tseng

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Pingtung Branch, Pingtung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Chin Lee

Affiliation Sijhih Cathay General Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Chung Wu

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Wen-Hu Hsu

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Sang-Hue Yen

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jacqueline Whang-Peng

Affiliation Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yuh-Min Chen

ymchen@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Taipei Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHT YHL YCT YCL YCW WHH SHY JWP YMC. Performed the experiments: YHT YHL YCT YCL YMC. Analyzed the data: YHT YCW WHH SHY JWP YMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHT YMC. Wrote the paper: YHT YHL YCT YMC.