Funding for this research was provided by:
the Youth Talents Program of the Health Commission of Changzhou City (QN201935)
Article History
Received: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 11 August 2020
First Online: 17 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Changzhou Second People’s Hospital in China (document number [2019] KY031–01). Written informed consents from the patients for the use of the tumor tissue for research were obtained prior to the resection procedure.
: Written consents were obtained from the patients or the patients’ family for the publication of the patients’ details.
: Qin Huang currently serves as an editorial board member for BMC Gastroenterology. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.