Rong, Lulu
Wang, Bingzhi
Guo, Lei
Liu, Xiuyun
Wang, Bingning
Ying, Jianming
Xue, Liyan
Lu, Ning
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of the Peoples’ Republic of China (81402463)
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-001)
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-3-005)
Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2016ZX310178, 2018PT32012)
Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2017PT32001)
Article History
Received: 25 November 2019
Accepted: 19 March 2020
First Online: 24 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was conducted after approval by the Ethics Committee from the National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. Consent was not required from each patient because this was a retrospective study. Tumor tissues for this study were obtained from the archival paraffin blocks of the repository of the Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. All procedures were performed in line with the 1983 version of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.