About the Authors

Wen-E Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-E Wei, Nai-Quan Mao, Shu-Fang Ning

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Nai-Quan Mao

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-E Wei, Nai-Quan Mao, Shu-Fang Ning

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Shu-Fang Ning

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-E Wei, Nai-Quan Mao, Shu-Fang Ning

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Ji-Lin Li

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Hai-Zhou Liu

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Tong Xie

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Jian-Hong Zhong

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Yan Feng

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Chang-Hong Wei

Affiliation Department of pathology, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Li-Tu Zhang

zhanglitu@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Research, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LTZ WEW. Data curation: WEW NQM SFN JLL. Formal analysis: WEW HZL. Funding acquisition: LTZ. Investigation: WEW NQM CHW. Methodology: WEW CHW. Project administration: LTZ WEW. Resources: TX NQM LTZ. Software: HZL. Supervision: JHZ YF. Validation: LTZ. Visualization: WEW. Writing – original draft: WEW. Writing – review & editing: WEW LTZ SFN JHZ.