About the Authors

Fang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Foshan Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China

Zhe Wang

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shannxi Province, China

Xiaoge Zhou

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Qing Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Foshan Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China

Gang Chen

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Fujian province Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China

Hualiang Xiao

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Daping Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China

Weihua Yin

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Shenzhen Hospital, Peking University, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

Shigeo Nakamura

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Huilan Rao

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

huilanrao@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China; Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.