About the Authors

Hailun Jiang

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ HJ and CZ are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Chao Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ HJ and CZ are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Xianggang Meng

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Shihao Chi

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Danqi Huang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Office for Cancer Screening, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Shizhe Deng

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Graduate School, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Guang Tian

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Zhihong Meng

Roles Project administration

profmengzhihong@163.com

Affiliations Department of acupuncture, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China, Department of acupuncture, National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Tianjin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.