Xu, Haibo
Xu, Meiling
Weng, Huijie
Zhao, Zhiwei
Zhou, Yibin
Cai, Guifen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Startup Fund for Doctor Workstation Climbing Program, Zhangzhou Affiliated Hospital (Grant number: PDZR202604)
Startup Fund for scientific research, Fujian Medical University (Grant number: 2023QH1328)
Article History
Received: 7 March 2026
Accepted: 21 July 2026
First Online: 27 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted using publicly available data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). All data were de-identified prior to analysis. Therefore, ethical approval and informed consent were not required for this study. Not applicable. This study used publicly available, de-identified data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). No new human participants were recruited, and no identifiable personal information was accessed; therefore, informed consent to participate was not required. Original consent was obtained by the TCGA Research Network at the time of sample collection.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.