About the Authors

Wei Xu

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, P.R. China

Quan Rao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, P.R. China

Yongbo An

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, P.R. China

Mengyi Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, P.R. China

Zhongtao Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization

zhangzht@ccmu.edu.cn.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.