Yang, Hongmin
Guo, Xiaoyi
Li, Ben
Huang, Xinqi
Mao, Yan
Lv, Meng
Zhang, Ning
Nie, Pei
Yang, Guangjie
Wang, Zhenguang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1123-5185
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province (tsqn202408392)
Natural Science Foundation of Qingdao Municipality (25-1-1-238-zyyd-jch)
Article History
Received: 17 December 2025
Accepted: 20 March 2026
First Online: 1 April 2026
Declarations
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: All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. This study was conducted at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University with approval from its Ethics Review Committee (Approval No. QYFYEC2023-147). It constitutes a a satellite site sub-analysis of the larger clinical trial NCT04547309 (Beijing Cancer Hospital). The study was prospectively registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Registration No. NCT06916637).Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.
: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Figs. and .
: The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.