Yao, Ji-Jin
Jin, Ya-Nan
Wang, Si-Yang
Zhang, Fan
Zhou, Guan-Qun
Zhang, Wang-Jian
Zhi-Bin,
Cheng,
Ma, Jun
Qi, Zhen-Yu
Sun, Ying https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5888-2929
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City, China (No. 14570006)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81372409)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81402532)
the Sun Yat-sen University Clinical Research 5010 Program (No.2012011)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2016
Accepted: 9 May 2018
First Online: 16 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted in compliance with institutional policy to protect patients’ private information, and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. As the current study was a retrospective assessment of routine data, the ethics committee of our Cancer Center waived the need for individual informed consent.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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