Funding for this research was provided by:
Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LQ19H160003)
Article History
Received: 13 May 2020
Accepted: 31 August 2020
First Online: 7 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study obtained approval from the Independent Ethics Committee of the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital (No. IRB-2020-15) to identify patients diagnosed with rectal cancer in our center. Because this was a retrospective study, consent was not obtained and patient records were anonymized and de-identified before analysis.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declared no conflicts of interest.