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 http://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, 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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