About the Authors

Qian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Yan Chen, Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Yan Chen, Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qian Zhang, Yan Chen, Bin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Bin Shi

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Wenjun Weng

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Zhipeng Chen

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Nannan Guo

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yibing Hua

zhulingjun@njmu.edu.cn (LZ); 125235225@qq.com (YH)

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lingjun Zhu

zhulingjun@njmu.edu.cn (LZ); 125235225@qq.com (YH)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated 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: LJZ YBH. Performed the experiments: ZPC NNG. Analyzed the data: QZ YC BZ BS WJW ZPC NNG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS WJW ZPC. Wrote the paper: QZ YC BZ.