Funding for this research was provided by:
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (15411965100)
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First Online: 7 November 2018
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: This work was supported by grants from Research Project of the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Project No: 15411965100, for Ruohong Shui).
: Xia Yang, Jia Rao, Wentao Yang, and Ruohong Shui declare that they have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: The study was approved by the Ethics Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center (IRB approval number: 1612167–10). All procedures performed involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics IRB of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients of the study to allow the use of their biological material, donated to our Biobank, for scientific projects and for publication purposes.