Cui, Heyang
Zhu, Zhongxu
Xu, Enwei
Qi, Lin
Cheng, Yikun
Zhang, Yinghan
Zhang, Ling
Cheng, Matthew Yibo
Yang, Bin
Sun, Ruifang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4791-3734
Zhuang, Xiaofei
Xi, Yanfeng
Yan, Ting
Cheng, Caixia
Ding, Ning
Liu, Huijuan
Wang, Lu
Guo, Min
Guo, Dinghe
Zhang, Haoyu
Peng, Meilan
An, Zhekun
Weng, Yongjia
Wang, Fang
Liu, Meng
Xiong, Ruixin
Yin, Weihua
Song, Bin
Zhang, Weimin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3348-9813
Cheng, Xiaolong
Liu, Zhihua https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4242-033X
Zhan, Qimin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1731-938X
Wang, Xin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5122-2418
Cui, Yongping https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5961-4125
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (U21A20372, 82341024)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82302916)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (82103143)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81988101)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2025
Revised: 26 November 2025
Accepted: 11 January 2026
First Online: 19 February 2026
Competing interests
: Q.Z. serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal but was not involved in the handling of the manuscript. The authors declare no other competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Shanxi Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Shanxi Medical University (Application ID: 2016LL106 and 2019LL245). All patients provided written informed consent for sample collection and data analysis.