Reply to B. De Bari et al and J. Widder et al

Jianfei Shen1, Chengyang Dai1, Yaxing Shen1

  • 1Jianfei Shen, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, China; Chengyang Dai, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Yaxing Shen, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Rene Horsleben Petersen, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Calvin S.H. Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong; Chia-Chuan Liu, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Gaetano Rocco, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy; Alessandro Brunelli, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom; Chengchu Zhu, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, China; Chang Chen, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; and Jianxing He, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease and China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China.

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