About the Authors

Noran Aboalela

Current address: College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Affiliation Department of Human & Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Debra Lyon

Current address: School of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.

Affiliations Family and Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

R. K. Elswick Jr.

Affiliation Family and Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Debra Lynch Kelly

Current address: School of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.

Affiliation Family and Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Jenni Brumelle

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Harry D. Bear

Affiliations Division of Surgical Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Colleen Jackson-Cook

ccook@mcvh-vcu.edu

Affiliations Department of Human & Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL CJC RKE. Performed the experiments: NA DK JB. Analyzed the data: NA RKE CJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJC DL RKE. Wrote the paper: NA DL DK RKE HB CJC.