Song, Pengxia
Liu, Xianglin
Qiu, Huiping
Cao, Yanhui
Liu, Jie
Zheng, Xin
Yao, Shuihong
Cao, Meng
Funding for this research was provided by:
science and technology planning project of Qu zhou (No. 2022K110)
Nanjing medical science and technique development foundation (No. ZKX23012)
Article History
Received: 26 June 2025
Accepted: 13 October 2025
First Online: 4 November 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University (Date: September 6, 2023; No: 2023-354-01). All participants provided written informed consent prior to inclusion in the study.
: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines and the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH Publications No. 85 − 23, revised 2011). The animal study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University (Date: November 8, 2024; No: 20241101). The maximal tumor size/burden permitted by the ethics committee was 2.0 cm in diameter, and this limit was not exceeded in any animal during the study.
: All authors consent to publish this manuscript in the journal.
: The authors declare no competing interests.