About the Authors

Yunbao Pan

panyunbao@outlook.com (YP); weiyongchang8@163.com (YW)

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered as co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yufen Yuan

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered as co-first authors.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Anyang Tumor Hospital, Anyang, Henan, China

Guoshi Liu

Affiliation Department of orthopedics, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Yongchang Wei

panyunbao@outlook.com (YP); weiyongchang8@163.com (YW)

Affiliation Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YP. Data curation: YP YY GL. Formal analysis: YP YW. Funding acquisition: YP YW. Investigation: YY GL. Project administration: YP YW. Resources: YP YY. Supervision: YP YW. Validation: YP YW. Visualization: YP YW. Writing – original draft: YP. Writing – review & editing: YP YW.