About the Authors

Sumanta K. Pal

spal@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Nora Ruel

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Department of Information Science, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Sergio Villegas

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Mark Chang

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Kara DeWalt

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Timothy G. Wilson

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Nicholas J. Vogelzang

Affiliation US Oncology Research, Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Bertram E. Yuh

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKP NR SV MC KD TW NV BY. Analyzed the data: SKP NR SV MC KD TW NV BY. Wrote the paper: SKP NR SV MC KD TW NV BY.