*Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

†Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Center, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

‡Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

§Graduate school, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

∥Institute of Neurology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China

F.L. and Q.L. contributed equally and are co-first authors.

This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81774078, 81803886) and Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, China (2021-BS-207).

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Correspondence: Gang Wang, PhD, Dalian Medical University, Lvshun South Road #9, Dalian 116011, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China ([email protected]; [email protected]); Chundong Gu, PhD, Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Zhongshan Road #222, Dalian 116011, Liaoning, People’s Republic of China ([email protected]).