Huang, Xin
Jiang, Dan
Li, Jincheng
Lai, Mingyu
Article History
Received: 15 July 2026
Accepted: 3 September 2026
First Online: 9 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (Approval No. 2025-E0055).
Consent to participate: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the IHC cohort.
Consent for publication: Not applicable because no identifiable individual participant data are presented.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.