Wei, Xi
Qin, Rong
Yin, Liang
Iqbal, Muhammad Asad
Shaibu, Zakari
Li, Guorui
Wu, Ting
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jiangsu Province Maternal and Child Health Research Project (F202322)
Project of Zhenjiang City Social Development (SH2023046, SH2024091)
Clinical Research Project of the Jiangsu University Affiliated People’s Hospital (Y2022019, JC-2023-004)
Medical Education Collaborative Innovation Fund of Jiangsu University (JDYY2023017)
Article History
Received: 21 March 2025
Accepted: 7 May 2025
First Online: 20 May 2025
Change Date: 11 April 2026
Change Type: Update
Change Details: The sentence in the Study Population section has been corrected to read: the Affiliated People's Hospital of Jiangsu University in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, China and the Fujian Medical University Union Medical College in Fujian Province, China encompassing 1003 CRC cases and 1303 cancer-free individuals recruited consecutively between 2014 and 2017.
Change Date: 25 April 2026
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-026-06479-9
Declarations
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: The study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Jiangsu University Affiliated People’s Hospital (K-20210038-W). The IRB granted a waiver of informed consent, as the study involved the use of anonymized data and posed minimal risk to participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.