Serum zinc as a biomarker to predict the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancers

• Jingliang Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingliang Wang, Weihao Wang

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Weihao Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jingliang Wang, Weihao Wang

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Bin Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Rui Zhao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Jing Zhao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Fengxian Jiang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Wei Xu,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Zhizhao Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Pancen Ran,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Yang Shu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Yahui Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Liying Pan,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Lei Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China, Department of Oncology, Jinan People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Fang Luan ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China

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• Guobin Fu

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fgbs@sina.com

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations The Second Clinical Medical College, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China, Department of Oncology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-7714

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