Xin-Yu Wang, Zhi-Xue Zheng, Yu Sun, Yan-Hua Bai, Yun-Fei Shi, Li-Xin Zhou, Yun-Feng Yao, Ai-Wen Wu, Deng-Feng Cao
Xin-Yu Wang, Yu Sun, Yan-Hua Bai, Yun-Fei Shi, Li-Xin Zhou, Deng-Feng Cao, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing 100142, China
Zhi-Xue Zheng, Yun-Feng Yao, Ai-Wen Wu, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, Beijing 100142, China
Zhi-Xue Zheng, Department of General Surgery, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing 100035, China
Deng-Feng Cao, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, United States
Author contributions: Wang XY and Zheng ZX contributed equally to this work; all authors helped to perform the research; Wang XY manuscript writing, performing procedures and data analysis; Zheng ZX contribution to writing the manuscript, drafting conception and design; Wang XY and Zheng ZX contribution to writing the manuscript equally; Sun Y manuscript writing, drafting conception and design, performing experiments, and data analysis; Bai YH, Shi YF, Zhou LX, Yao YF and Wu AW contribution to writing the manuscript; Cao DF contribution to writing the manuscript drafting conception and design.
Supported by Special Scientific Research Key Project for Capital Health Development, China, No. 2018-2Z-1026.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Cancer Hospital.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflicts-of-interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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Corresponding author: Yu Sun, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Key laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Pathology, Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute, 52 Fucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100142, China. sunyu_bch@163.com
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Received: December 26, 2018
Peer-review started: December 26, 2018
First decision: January 11, 2019
Revised: February 13, 2019
Accepted: March 16, 2019
Article in press: March 16, 2019
Published online: April 15, 2019
