Xu, Yi-Wei
Chen, Hao
Guo, Hai-Peng
Yang, Shi-Han
Luo, Yu-Hao
Liu, Can-Tong
Huang, Xin-Yi
Tang, Xue-Miao
Hong, Chao-Qun
Li, En-Min
Xu, Li-Yan
Peng, Yu-Hui
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600632)
the National Cohort of Esophageal Cancer of China (2016YFC0901400)
the Guangdong Esophageal Cancer Institute Science and Technology Program (M201713)
the Shantou University Medical College Clinical Research Enhancement Initiative (201428)
Article History
Received: 10 July 2018
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 13 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent to be included in the study, or the equivalent, was obtained from all patients.