About the Authors

Hao Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Gu, Tingxuan Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Tingxuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Gu, Tingxuan Li

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Narasimha M. Beeraka

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (RIPER), Anantapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India, Department of Human Anatomy, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States of America

Yufei Zheng

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xintan Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Ruixia Song

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Runze Zhou

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xiaoyan Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Olga Sukocheva

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Discipline of Health Sciences, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia, Department of Hepatology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA Health, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Ruitai Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

fccfanrt@zzu.edu.cn (RF); fccliujq@zzu.edu.cn, jqliu2@yahoo.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Junqi Liu

Roles Data curation, Project administration

fccfanrt@zzu.edu.cn (RF); fccliujq@zzu.edu.cn, jqliu2@yahoo.com (JL)

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Cancer Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.