Liu, Jin-Guo
Yu, Lin
Guo, Xian-Ling
He, Xue-Min
Li, Man
Gao, Ren-Yuan
Zhao, Bing-Hui
Li, Qian-Yu
Zhu, Wen-Jing
Xu, Ping
Gu, Xiao-Hua
Chen, Yong-An
Yin, Xiao-Lan
Shang, Yan
Guo, Zhen-Hong
Mao, Jia-Hao
Hu, Yang-Xi
Lu, Li-Ming
Hua, Jian
Zhang, Hua
Article History
Received: 19 January 2024
Revised: 11 February 2025
Accepted: 25 April 2025
First Online: 5 May 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study did not require ethical approval as it did not involve human participants, human data, or animal subjects. All analyses were based on publicly available, anonymized datasets (e.g., UALCAN, GEO, GEPIA, Kaplan–Meier) that had obtained appropriate ethical clearance prior to release and are openly accessible to the research community. Therefore, no institutional ethics review was necessary.