About the Authors

Hongcheng Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongcheng Zhu, Xi Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongcheng Zhu, Xi Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Chen Zhu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guangzhou Tao

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Huai'an First People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Huai'an, China

Lianjun Zhao

Affiliation The Comprehensive Cancer Center, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital and Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Shaowen Tang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Modern Toxicology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zheng Shu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China

Jing Cai

Affiliation Tumor Institute, Nantong Tumor Hospital, Nantong, China

Shengbin Dai

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China

Qin Qin

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Liping Xu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Hongyan Cheng

sunxinchen2012@163.com (XCS); hychennjmu@163.com (HYC)

Affiliation Department of Synthetic Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xinchen Sun

sunxinchen2012@163.com (XCS); hychennjmu@163.com (HYC)

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XCS HYC. Performed the experiments: HCZ XY C. Zhang. Analyzed the data: HCZ XY C. Zhang C. Zhu GZT LJZ SWT ZS JC SBD QQ LPX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HCZ XY C. Zhang C. Zhu GZT LJZ SWT ZS JC SBD QQ LPX. Wrote the paper: HCZ XY.