About the Authors

I-Chun Lai

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ping-Hsiao Shih

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Pediatrics, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Chih-Jung Yao

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Tai Yeh

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jacqueline Wang-Peng

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tai-Ngar Lui

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Suang-En Chuang

Affiliation National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Tsai-Shu Hu

Affiliation Cancer Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tung-Yuan Lai

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Gi-Ming Lai

gminlai@nhri.org.tw

Affiliations Comprehensive Cancer Center, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ICL PHS CJY CTY JWP TYL GML. Performed the experiments: PHS CTY TSH. Analyzed the data: PHS TNL SEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PHS CTY. Wrote the paper: ICL PHS CJY SEC GML.