About the Authors

Youzhu Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Youzhu Lu, Jingjing Jing

Affiliation Digestive department, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jingjing Jing

Contributed equally to this work with: Youzhu Lu, Jingjing Jing

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

Liping Sun

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

Yuehua Gong

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

Moye Chen

Affiliation Digestive department, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Zeyang Wang

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

Mingjun Sun

smjmw@sina.com (MJS); yuanyuan@cmu.edu.cn (YY)

Affiliation Digestive department, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yuan Yuan

smjmw@sina.com (MJS); yuanyuan@cmu.edu.cn (YY)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS. Data curation: YL JJ. Formal analysis: LS YG MC. Funding acquisition: MS YY. Investigation: YL JJ ZW. Methodology: YL. Project administration: MS YY. Resources: MS YY. Supervision: MS YY. Validation: YL JJ LS. Visualization: YL JJ YG. Writing – original draft: YL. Writing – review & editing: YL JJ MS YY.