About the Authors

Xuemei Ji

xuemei.ji@yahoo.com (XJ); chxie65@hotmail.com (CX)

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Conghua Xie

xuemei.ji@yahoo.com (XJ); chxie65@hotmail.com (CX)

Affiliation Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Desheng Hu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Tumor Hosptal of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China

Xia Fan

Affiliation Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yajuan Zhou

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Tumor Hosptal of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China

Yingjie Zheng

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XJ. Performed the experiments: DH CX XF Y. Zhou. Analyzed the data: XJ CX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XF Y. Zheng. Wrote the paper: XJ.