Si-Hua Dang, Qin Liu, Rong Xie, Na Shen, Shu Zhou, Wei Shi, Wen Liu, Ping Zou, Yong You, Zhao-Dong Zhong
Si-Hua Dang, Rong Xie, Na Shen, Shu Zhou, Wei Shi, Wen Liu, Ping Zou, Yong You, Zhao-Dong Zhong, Department of Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China
Si-Hua Dang, Department of Oncology, Luohe Central Hospital, Luohe 462300, Henan Province, China
Qin Liu, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China
Author contributions: Dang SH and Liu Q contributed equally to this article, conceived of and coordinated the study, designed, performed, and analyzed the experiments, and wrote the paper; Xie R, Shen N, Zhou S, Shi W, Liu W, and Zou P performed the data collection and data analysis, and revised the paper; You Y and Zhong ZD designed the study, carried out the data collection and data analysis, and revised the paper; All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the institutional review board of the Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College.
Informed consent statement: Waived because of the retrospective study design.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflicts-of-interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: The data sets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Zhao-Dong Zhong, MD, Doctor, Department of Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Hankou District, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China. whxhzzd008@126.com
Received: November 22, 2019
Peer-review started: November 22, 2019
First decision: December 12, 2019
Revised: February 19, 2020
Accepted: February 28, 2020
Article in press: February 28, 2020
Published online: March 26, 2020
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