funded by the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding(Grant No.2022-PUMCH-B-011);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2022YFA1305500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32322023,82173272,81825016,82173230,82341018,82203662,82173271,82103416,82103536,82173266,82202276,and 81972385);the Key Areas Research and Development Program of Guangdong(Grant No.2022B1515120086,2021B1515020091,2022A1515140175,2021A1515010215,2023A1515011648,2022A1515012288,2021A1515010355);the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou,China(Grant No.2023A04J2206).
Lymph node(LN)metastasis is one of the predominant metastatic routes of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)and is considered as a leading cause for the unsatisfactory prognosis of patients.Although lymphangiogenesis is ...