About the Authors

Cheryl L. Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheryl L. Thompson, Stephen P. Fink

Affiliations Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Stephen P. Fink

Contributed equally to this work with: Cheryl L. Thompson, Stephen P. Fink

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

James D. Lutterbaugh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Robert C. Elston

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Martina L. Veigl

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sanford D. Markowitz

sxm10@case.edu (SM); lxl62@case.edu (LL)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Li Li

sxm10@case.edu (SM); lxl62@case.edu (LL)

Affiliations Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL SDM RCE. Performed the experiments: SPF JDL MLV. Analyzed the data: CLT SPF RCE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL SDM. Wrote the paper: CLT SPF RCE SDM LL.