Ngan, Hoi-Lam
Poon, Peony Hiu Yan
Su, Yu-Xiong
Chan, Jason Ying Kuen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9480-4637
Lo, Kwok-Wai
Yeung, Chun Kit
Liu, Yuchen
Wong, Eileen
Li, Hui
Lau, Chin Wang
Piao, Wenying
Lui, Vivian Wai Yan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6918-1573
Funding for this research was provided by:
Food and Health Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | Health and Medical Research Fund (15160691)
Innovation and Technology Fund (UIM/329, PiH/052/18, PiH/234/18)
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (17114814, 14168517, 17121616, R4017-18, 17120718, 14109716, 14108818)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (1R01CA229836-01A1)
Article History
Received: 12 September 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2020
First Online: 20 April 2020
Competing interests
: All authors do not have any conflicts of interest directly related to this study. For fundings unrelated to this study, V.W.Y.L. receives funding from the Hong Kong Cancer Fund, Hong Kong SAR on an ovarian cancer study. V.W.Y.L. served as a consultant for Novartis Pharmaceuticals (HK) Ltd. in 2015–2016. Y.L., W.P. and E.W. receive funding supports (Postdoctoral Hub PH-ITF Ref.: PiH/052/18 and PiH/234/18 of UIM/329) from the Innovation and Technology Fund, Hong Kong government on an unrelated study in head and neck cancer.