About the Authors

Maurizio Chiriva-Internati

maurizio.chiriva@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Yuefei Yu

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Leonardo Mirandola

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Marjorie R. Jenkins

Affiliations Division of Hematology and Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, Departments of Internal Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health and Center for Women's Health and Gender-Based Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Caroline Chapman

Affiliation Division of Breast Surgery, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Martin Cannon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Everardo Cobos

Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

W. Martin Kast

Affiliations Departments of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Urology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCI MRJ MC EC WMK. Performed the experiments: MCI YY. Analyzed the data: MCI YY LM MC EC WMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRJ CC MC EC WMK. Wrote the paper: MCI LM.