About the Authors

Man-Hsin Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Hsin Hung, Chia-Jen Liu

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Program in Molecular Medicine, School of Life Sciences, National Yang-Ming University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Chia-Jen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Hsin Hung, Chia-Jen Liu

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Jen Teng

Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Oncology and Hematology, Department of Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Wen Hu

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chiu-Mei Yeh

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

San-Chi Chen

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Sheng-Hsuan Chien

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Ping Hung

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Che Shen

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Information Management, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Tzeng-Ji Chen

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Hwai Tzeng

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Yu Liu

cyliu3@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHH CJL CYL. Performed the experiments: MHH CJL CJT CMY. Analyzed the data: MHH CJL YWH CMY SCC SHC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJC CHT CJL. Wrote the paper: MHH CJL CJT YWH SCC SHC YPH CCS CYL.