About the Authors

Ariel Ka-Man Chow

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Research, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Lui Ng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Colin Siu-Chi Lam

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Sunny Kit-Man Wong

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Timothy Ming-Hun Wan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Nathan Shiu-Man Cheng

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Thomas Chung-Cheung Yau

Affiliation Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ronnie Tung-Ping Poon

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Research, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Roberta Wen-Chi Pang

robertap@hku.hk

Affiliations Centre for Cancer Research, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Surgery, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKC TCY RTP RWP. Performed the experiments: AKC LN CSL SKW TMW NSC. Analyzed the data: AKC LN CSL SKW TMW NSC. Wrote the paper: AKC.