Ye, Fu-Gui
Xia, Chen
Ma, Ding
Lin, Pei-Yang
Hu, Xin
Shao, Zhi-Ming http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-2455
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST2016YFC0900300)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81672601)
Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology Funds (15410724000)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2017
Accepted: 22 October 2018
First Online: 8 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Shanghai Cancer Center of Fudan University. The data released from the SEER database did not require informed patient consent because cancer is a reportable disease in every state in the US.
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