Wen-Ting An, Department of Pharmacy, Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan 030012, Shanxi Province, China
Yu-Xia Hao, Department of Gastroenterology, Shanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Taiyuan 030012, Shanxi Province, China
Hong-Xia Li, Department of Oncology, Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Taiyuan 030012, Shanxi Province, China
Xing-Kang Wu, Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi Province, China
Co-first authors: Wen-Ting An and Yu-Xia Hao.
Co-corresponding authors: Hong-Xia Li and Xing-Kang Wu.
Author contributions: An WT contributed to conceptualization, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, data curation, writing and formal analysis; Hao YX contributed to investigation, methodology, data curation and formal analysis; Wu XK contributed to supervision, writing, review and editing; Li HX contributed to conceptualization, methodology, supervision, funding acquisition, review and editing; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by Shanxi Provincial Health Commission, No. 2019022.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital (No. 2022-167).
Informed consent statement: All the patients voluntarily participated in the study and signed informed consent forms.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: All data and materials are available from the corresponding author.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Hong-Xia Li, MMed, Chief Physician, Department of Oncology, Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, No. 29 Shuangta Road, Taiyuan 030012, Shanxi Province, China. 345lihongxia@163.com
Received: November 3, 2023
Peer-review started: November 3, 2023
First decision: December 6, 2023
Revised: December 14, 2023
Accepted: January 22, 2024
Article in press: January 22, 2024
Published online: February 16, 2024
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