From the *National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes; †Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan; ‡Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung; §Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan; ∥Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine; and ¶Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan.
Received for publication September 4, 2014; accepted February 24, 2015.
Reprints: Li-Tzong Chen, MD, PhD, National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, 2F No 367, Sheng-Li Rd, Tainan 70456, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]) or Yan-Shen Shan, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine 138, Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 70428, Taiwan (e-mail: [email protected]).
This study was supported by the Establishment of Cancer Research System Excellence Program funded by the Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (CA-103-SP-01; DOH101-TD-C-111-003) and by grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (103-2314-B-400-012-MY2).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
