About the Authors

Pengfei Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Kong, Qingqing Cai

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Qingqing Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Kong, Qingqing Cai

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Medical Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Qirong Geng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Hematology Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Jing Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Molecular Diagnosis, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Yadong Lan

Affiliation Department of Oncological Surgery, the first affiliated hospital of Bengbu medical college, Bengbu, China

Youqing Zhan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Dazhi Xu

xudzh@sysucc.org.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Department of Gastric and Pancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZX. Performed the experiments: PFK QQC QRG JW. Analyzed the data: PFK QQC QRG JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QQC JW YDL YQZ. Wrote the paper: PFK.