Lu, Zexiu
Lei, Ming
Chen, Jian
Deng, Ao
Chang, Chao
Chen, Jing
Meng, Die
Wang, Rui
Wan, Xueying
Tu, Gang
Liu, Manran
Tang, Lingfeng https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5507-386X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Clinical College Clinical Medicine first-class discipline construction project to department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery (CYYY-BSYJSCXXW-202322)
the Outstanding Professorship Program of Chongqing Medical University (2019-R10005)
Article History
Received: 22 March 2025
Accepted: 7 October 2025
First Online: 28 November 2025
Declarations
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: The research adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki and both national and international ethical standards. The Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University approved the use of clinical materials (approval no. 2020–202, 29 April 2020; approval no. K2023-514, 11 October 2023), and informed consent was obtained from all patients before this research. All animal experiments were performed in accordance with the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) guidelines and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Chongqing Medical University (approval no. IACUC-CQMU-2023–0267, 28 September 2023).
: All authors approved the manuscript for submission and gave their consent for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.