About the Authors

Man-Tang Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Tang Qiu, Jing-Wen Hu

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Jing-Wen Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Man-Tang Qiu, Jing-Wen Hu

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Xiang-Xiang Ding

Affiliation The First Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xin Yang

Affiliations The Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital Cancer Institute of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China

Zhi Zhang

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

Rong Yin

yinhero001@126.com (RY); xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX)

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

Lin Xu

yinhero001@126.com (RY); xulin83cn@gmail.com (LX)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTQ RY LX. Performed the experiments: MTQ JWH XXD XY ZZ RY LX. Analyzed the data: MTQ JWH XXD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MTQ JWH XXD RY. Wrote the paper: MTQ JWH ZZ RY. Access to full-text articles: XXD.