Yuan, Luyun
Wang, Liyu
Gao, Jiamin
Chen, Xin
Wang, Haoyue
Tan, Wei Shan
Sun, Kexiang
Gong, Yabin
Deng, Wanli https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5044-5292
Funding for this research was provided by:
the Clinical Specialized Discipline of Health System of PuTuo District in Shanghai (Number: 2021tszk01)
Putuo District Central Hospital Project (No.2023-BSH-02)
Article History
Received: 25 March 2025
Accepted: 28 May 2025
First Online: 22 June 2025
Declarations
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: The study involving human participants was conducted in accordance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Since the SEER database contains de-identified public health data with all personally identifiable elements removed, ethical review is not required. The original human data used in this study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Putuo Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China on 18 October 2024 (Ethical Committee N° PTEC-A-2024–61 (S) 1). The study obtained written and signed consent from the patient or their guardian/next of kin, if contact was possible. For patients who could not be reached, the ethical committee granted a waiver of informed consent. This written consent has been approved by the ethics committee. Prior to analysis, patient information was de-identified.
: All authors confirm that the work described has not been published before and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All authors have seen and gave consent to the publication of this study. The publication of this work has been approved by the responsible authorities at the institutions where the work is carried out.
: The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.