Wang, Yun-Long http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5925-6938
Zhao, Wan-Wen
Bai, Shao-Mei
Ma, Yan
Yin, Xin-Ke
Feng, Li-Li
Zeng, Guang-Dong
Wang, Fang
Feng, Wei-Xing
Zheng, Jian
Wang, Ying-Nai
Zeng, Bing
Liu, Quentin
Hung, Mien-Chie http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4317-4740
Wan, Xiang-Bo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9437-6188
Article History
Received: 14 December 2021
Revised: 7 July 2022
Accepted: 11 July 2022
First Online: 16 August 2022
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Human locally advanced rectal cancer and adjacent non-tumor rectal tissues were obtained from the Tissue Bank of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. All patients underwent radical rectal cancer surgery, and both tumor and adjacent normal tissues were histologically confirmed. Informed consent was obtained from each patient, and the protocol was approved by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee.