About the Authors

Chien-Yu Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Jia Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

r5424012@tmu.edu.tw (YJC); wangweu@tmu.edu.tw (WW)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cell Physiology and Molecular Image Research Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Li Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Research Center and Translational Laboratory, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Sheng Hung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Weu Wang

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

r5424012@tmu.edu.tw (YJC); wangweu@tmu.edu.tw (WW)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.