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Correspondence: Jian He; email: hjxueren@126.com or Xiaofeng Yang; email: Xiaofeng.yang@emory.edu or Zhengyang Zhou; email: zyzhou@nju.edu.cn
Author Contributions: Jie Meng and Shunli Liu contributed equally to this work
J.M. and S.L.L. collected data, carried out the data analysis and drafted the manuscript; X.F.Y. and Y.G. carried out the quality control of data and algorithms; H.H.W. and L.Z. had significant roles in the data acquisition; L.J.Z. and L.X. were the oncologists responsible for all oncological support; J.H., X.F.Y. and Z.Y.Z. had significant roles in the study design and manuscript review; X.F.Y. and Z.Y.Z. formulated the research question, supervised the research program and edited the manuscript.
All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Disclosures: The authors declare no competing interests.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (ID: 81371516, 81501441, 81671751), Social Development Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BE2015605), Foundation of National Health and Family Planning Commission of China (W201306), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (ID: BK20150109, BK20150102), Jiangsu Province Health and Family Planning Commission Youth Scientific Research Project (ID: Q201508), Six Talent Peaks Project of Jiangsu Province (ID: 2015-WSN-079) and Key Project supported by Medical Science and technology development Foundation, Nanjing Department of Health (YKK15067).
The opinions, results, and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources.
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