About the Authors

Bisrat G. Debeb

Contributed equally to this work with: Bisrat G. Debeb, Daniel L. Smith

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Daniel L. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Bisrat G. Debeb, Daniel L. Smith

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Li Li

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Richard Larson

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Wei Xu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Wendy A. Woodward

wwoodward@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BGD DLS WAW. Performed the experiments: BGD DLS LL WX RL. Analyzed the data: BGD DLS WAW. Wrote the paper: BGD DLS WAW.