About the Authors

Yuting Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Zhu, Guangyu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Guangyu Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuting Zhu, Guangyu Zhou

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Xuebin Yu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Qiang Xu

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Kai Wang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Dan Xie

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Qingkai Yang

Linawang1109@hotmail.com (QKY); Qingkaiyang@hotmail.com (LNW)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Lina Wang

Linawang1109@hotmail.com (QKY); Qingkaiyang@hotmail.com (LNW)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Institute of Cancer Stem Cell, DaLian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YTZ LNW. Data curation: YTZ GYZ LNW. Formal analysis: XBY QX DX KW. Funding acquisition: LNW. Investigation: XBY KW DX. Methodology: YTZ GYZ QX LNW. Project administration: QKY LNW. Resources: QKY LNW. Software: YTZ GYZ LNW. Supervision: QKY LNW. Validation: XBY KW DX. Visualization: YTZ LNW KW. Writing – original draft: YTZ LNW. Writing – review & editing: YTZ QKY LNW.