About the Authors

Gu-Shun Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Jian-Ri Li

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine and Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shian-Shiang Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

Chuan-Shu Chen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chun-Kuang Yang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Yen Lin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Sheng-Chun Hung

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Kun-Yuan Chiu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

Shun-Fa Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

ysf@csmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.