About the Authors

Qi Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Yang, Huanxin Lin

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China

Huanxin Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Qi Yang, Huanxin Lin

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China

Shu Wu

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, P.R. China

Fangyong Lei

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, P.R. China

Xi Zhu

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China

Libing Song

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou 510060, P.R. China

Minghuang Hong

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Clinical Trials Center, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, PR China

Ling Guo

guoling1423@163.com

Affiliations Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China, Department of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, 510060, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH LG LS. Performed the experiments: QY SW FL. Analyzed the data: HL FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ. Wrote the paper: QY LS LG.