About the Authors

Shufeng Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Zhou, Mohamed Abdouh

Affiliations Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre-Research Institute, Montreal, Canada, Department of Experimental Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Mohamed Abdouh

Contributed equally to this work with: Shufeng Zhou, Mohamed Abdouh

Affiliation Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre-Research Institute, Montreal, Canada

Vincenzo Arena

Affiliation Deparment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Santo Bambino Hospital, Catania, Italy

Manuel Arena

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Organ Transplantation and Advances Technologies, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Goffredo Orazio Arena

goffredo.arena@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Cancer Research Program, McGill University Health Centre-Research Institute, Montreal, Canada, Department of Surgery, St. Mary Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SZ M. Abdouh GA. Data curation: SZ M. Abdouh. Formal analysis: SZ M. Abdouh. Funding acquisition: GA. Investigation: SZ M. Abdouh GA. Methodology: SZ M. Abdouh. Project administration: SZ M. Abdouh. Resources: VA M. Arena GA. Supervision: GA. Validation: SZ M. Abdouh VA M. Arena GA. Visualization: SZ M. Abdouh. Writing – original draft: SZ M. Abdouh. Writing – review & editing: SZ M. Abdouh VA M. Arena GA.