About the Authors

Hao Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Peng, Lei Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Lei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Peng, Lei Chen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Wen-Fei Li

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Yuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Li-Zhi Liu

Affiliation Imaging Diagnosis and Interventional Center, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Li Tian

Affiliation Imaging Diagnosis and Interventional Center, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Ai-Hua Lin

Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Ying Sun

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Jun Ma

majun2@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, 510060, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JM HP LC. Data curation: JM HP. Formal analysis: HP LC AHL. Funding acquisition: JM. Investigation: JM HP. Methodology: HP WFL YZ. Project administration: JM HP. Resources: HP LZL LT. Software: LC AHL. Supervision: YS. Validation: JM YS. Visualization: WFL YZ. Writing – original draft: HP LC WFL YZ. Writing – review & editing: HP YS.