About the Authors

Geffen Kleinstern

Contributed equally to this work with: Geffen Kleinstern, Rania Abu Seir

Affiliation School of Public Health, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel

Rania Abu Seir

Contributed equally to this work with: Geffen Kleinstern, Rania Abu Seir

Affiliations Dept of Hematology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Faculty of Health Professions, Dept of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Al Quds University, Abu Deis, West Bank

Riki Perlman

Affiliation Dept of Hematology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Areej Khatib

Affiliation Cancer Care Center, Augusta Victoria Hospital, East Jerusalem

Ziad Abdeen

Affiliation School Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Medicine, Al Quds University, Abu Deis, West Bank

Husein Elyan

Affiliation Beit Jalla Hospital, West Bank, PA

Ronit Nirel

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Gail Amir

Affiliation Dept of Pathology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Asad Ramlawi

Affiliation Department of Primary Health Care, Ministry of Health, Ramallah, Palestine

Fouad Sabatin

Affiliation Cancer Care Center, Augusta Victoria Hospital, East Jerusalem

Paolo Boffetta

Affiliation Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Eldad J. Dann

Affiliation Rambam Medical Center and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Meirav Kedmi

Affiliation Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Tel Aviv University, Israel

Martin Ellis

Affiliation Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel

Arnon Nagler

Affiliation Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dina Ben Yehuda

Affiliation Dept of Hematology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ora Paltiel

Orap@hadassah.org.il

Affiliations School of Public Health, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel, Dept of Hematology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OP DBY RP GK RAS. Data curation: GK RAS. Formal analysis: GK. Funding acquisition: OP DBY. Investigation: GK RAS. Methodology: OP GK. Project administration: GK RAS OP. Resources: GK RAS RP AK ZA HE RN GA AR FS ED MK ME AN DBY OP. Software: GK. Supervision: GK RAS RP AK ZA DBY OP. Validation: GK RAS. Visualization: GK RAS OP. Writing – original draft: GK OP RAS. Writing – review & editing: GK RAS RP AK ZA HE RN GA AR FS PB ED MK ME AN DBY OP.