About the Authors

Lou Qian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lou Qian Zhang, Jun Wang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lou Qian Zhang, Jun Wang

Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy, Jiangsu Province Geriatric Institute, Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, China

Feng Jiang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lin Xu

xulinjs@yeah.net

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Fu Yin Liu

Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy, Jiangsu Province Geriatric Institute, Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, China

Rong Yin

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FJ LX. Performed the experiments: LQZ JW FYL. Analyzed the data: LQZ RY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX. Wrote the paper: RY.