About the Authors

Chao Tu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Tu, Yingqi Pi

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

tcmedical21@126.com (CT); 2559512439@qq.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yingqi Pi

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Tu, Yingqi Pi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China

Shan Xing

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Yang Ling

Roles Project administration

tcmedical21@126.com (CT); 2559512439@qq.com (YL)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (Changzhou Tumor Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University), Changzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.