About the Authors

Hao Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Lai, Xianwei Mo, Yang Yang

HL, XWM, and YY are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Xianwei Mo

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Lai, Xianwei Mo, Yang Yang

HL, XWM, and YY are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Yang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Lai, Xianwei Mo, Yang Yang

HL, XWM, and YY are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Jun Xiao

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Ke He

Affiliation Department of Neck and Head Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Jiansi Chen

Chenjiansi168@sina.cn (JSC); doctoryuanlin@sina.cn (YL)

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Yuan Lin

Chenjiansi168@sina.cn (JSC); doctoryuanlin@sina.cn (YL)

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL. Performed the experiments: HL XWM YY. Analyzed the data: HL XWM YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX KH JSC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HL XWM YY.