About the Authors

Roy B. Kim

Affiliation Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Allison Phillips

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Kirsten Herrick

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Marieka Helou

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Carlin Rafie

Affiliation Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Mitchell S. Anscher

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Ross B. Mikkelsen

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Yi Ning

yning2@vcu.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed critically important content and revised manuscript: MH CR MA RM. Conceived and designed the experiments: YN AP. Performed the experiments: YN AP. Analyzed the data: AP YN RK. Wrote the paper: RK YN KH.