About the Authors

Nigar Nargis

Contributed equally to this work with: Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen

nigar.nargis@cancer.org

Affiliations American Cancer Society, Washington DC, United States of America, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mary E. Thompson

Contributed equally to this work with: Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen

Affiliation University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Geoffrey T. Fong

Contributed equally to this work with: Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen

Affiliation University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Pete Driezen

Contributed equally to this work with: Nigar Nargis, Mary E. Thompson, Geoffrey T. Fong, Pete Driezen

Affiliation University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

A. K. M. Ghulam Hussain

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ummul H. Ruthbah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Anne C. K. Quah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Abu S. Abdullah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Global Health Program, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NN MET GTF. Performed the experiments: AKMGH. Analyzed the data: PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASA UHR ACKQ. Wrote the paper: NN MET GTF PD AKMGH ASA UHR ACKQ.