About the Authors

Shi Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi Chen, Bai-Wei Zhao

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Bai-Wei Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi Chen, Bai-Wei Zhao

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Yuan-Fang Li

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Xing-Yu Feng

Affiliation Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Xiao-Wei Sun

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Wei Li

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Zhi-Wei Zhou

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

You-Qing Zhan

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Chao-Nan Qian

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Laboratory of Cancer and Developmental Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Ying-Bo Chen

chenyb@sysucc.org.cn

Affiliations Department of Gastropancreatic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC B-WZ Y-BC. Performed the experiments: SC B-WZ Y-FL X-YF X-WS WL Z-WZ Y-QZ Y-BC. Analyzed the data: SC B-WZ Y-FL CNQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC B-WZ Y-BC. Wrote the paper: SC.