Rong, Lulu
Liu, Yong
Hui, Zhouguang
Zhao, Zitong
Zhang, Yueming
Wang, Bingzhi
Yuan, Yanling
Li, Wenbin
Guo, Lei
Ying, Jianming
Song, Yongmei
Wang, Luhua
Zhou, Zhongren
Xue, Liyan
Lu, Ning
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of the Peoples’ Republic of China (81272308, 81402463)
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-001)
Beijing Hope Run Special Fund (LC2013L10)
Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2016ZX310178)
Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2017PT32001)
Article History
Received: 9 September 2018
Accepted: 2 January 2019
First Online: 26 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted after approval by the Independent Ethics Committee from National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. The consent was not required from each patient because this was a retrospective study. All procedures were performed in line with the declaration of Helsinki’s version of 1983.
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