Li, Nan
Kong, Jienan
Lin, Zhenhua
Yang, Yang
Jin, Tiefeng
Xu, Ming
Sun, Jie
Chen, Liyan
Article History
Received: 5 July 2018
Revised: 7 December 2018
Accepted: 3 January 2019
First Online: 26 February 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All subjects gave written consent for publication.
: This research complied with the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the Human Ethics Committee and the Research Ethics Committee of Yanbian University Medical College. Patients were informed that the resected specimens were stored by the hospital and potentially used for scientific research and publication of identifying information/images (when applicable), and that their privacy would be maintained. Follow-up survival data were collected retrospectively through medical record analyses. All patients provided informed consent prior to undergoing screening procedures.
: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Funds of China (no. 31760313, 81460399 and 81660436), The Funds of Changbai Mountain Scholar Project and Key Laboratory of the Science and Technology Department of Jilin Province.
: This work is published under the standard license to publish agreement. After 12 months the work will become freely available and the license terms will switch to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
: The data sets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.