Contribution to Authorship
Prof. Guo Ruixia is responsible for the study, who designed and implemented the research. She has done plenty of sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage cervical cancer patients followed by standardized treatment for cervical cancer. Dr. Xie Ya, Wang Qian, Wen Haixiao, Zhang Weiwei and Bai Jing have performed sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by standard treatment in early-stage cervical cancer. Yang Jianping and Yan Shuping were in charge of the histopathological evaluation. Li Huiqing, Cai Lei, Mo Jiaya and Wang Dong were responsible for data collection and result analysis. Dr. Xie Ya and Li Huiqing drafted the manuscript. Prof. Guo took part in revising this manuscript. Each author has participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and has agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.