Prof Wenbo Meng MDa,d,e,?, Prof Joseph W Leung MDf,?, Prof Kai Zhang MDg,?, Prof Wence Zhou MDb,d,e, Zhenyu Wang MDb,d,e, Prof Leida Zhang MDi, Prof Hao Sun MDj, Prof Ping Xue MDk, Prof Wei Liu MDl, Prof Qi Wang MDl,m, Prof Jijun Zhang MDn, Prof Xuefeng Wang MDo, Prof Meng Wang MDp, Prof Yingmei Shao MDq, Prof Kailin Cai MDr, Prof Senlin Hou MDs, Prof Qiyong Li MDt, Prof Lei Zhang MDc,d,e, Prof Kexiang Zhu MDb,d,e, Ping Yue MDa,d,e, Haiping Wang MDd,e, Ming Zhang MDg, Xiangyu Sun MDh, Zhiqing Yang MDi, Jie Tao MDj, Zilong Wen MDk, Prof Qunwei Wang MDl,m, Bendong Chen MDm, Prof Quan Shao MDn, Mingning Zhao MDo, Ruoyan Zhang MDp, Tiemin Jiang MDq, Ke Liu MDr, Lichao Zhang MDs, Kangjie Chen MDu, Xiaoliang Zhu MDc,d,e, Hui Zhang MDb,d,e, Long Miao MDb,d,e, Zhengfeng Wang MDb,d,e, Jiajia Li BNd,e, Xiaowen Yan BNd,e, Fangzhao Wang BNb, Lingen Zhang BNb, Azumi Suzuki MDv, Prof Kiyohito Tanaka MDv, Prof Ula Nur PhDw, Prof Elisabete Weiderpass PhDx, Prof Xun Li MDc,d,e,*
a Department of Special Minimally Invasive Surgery, CHESS Center, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
b Second Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
c Fifth Department of General Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
d Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Institute of Gansu Province, Clinical Medical College Cancer Center of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
e Key Laboratory of Biological Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Transformation Gansu Province, Lanzhou, China
f Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California, Davis Medical Center and Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
g Hepatobiliary Surgery Department, Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China
h Centre of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China
i Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
j Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
k Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
l Minimal Invasive Surgery Centre, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
m Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China
n Department of General Surgery, Sixth Hospital of Shanxi Medical University (General Hospital of TISCO), Taiyuan, China
o Department of General Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Biliary Tract Disease Research, Shanghai, China
p Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
q Department of Hepatobiliary and Hydatid, Digestive and Vascular Surgery Centre, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis and Liver Surgery Research, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China
r Gastrointestinal Surgery Department, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
s Department of Biliopancreatic Endoscopic Surgery, Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China
t Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, School of Medicine, Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
u Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, School of Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
v Department of Gastroenterology, Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
w Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
x International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
? Contributed equally
