About the Authors

Arulkumar Nagappan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Won Sup Lee

lwshmo@hanmail.net, lwshmo@gnu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Jeong Won Yun

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Jing Nan Lu

Current address: The fifth hospital of Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang, China

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Seong-Hwan Chang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jae-Hoon Jeong

Affiliation Research Center for Radiotherapy, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea

Gon Sup Kim

Affiliation Research Institute of Life Science and College of Veterinary Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, 900 Gajwadong, Jinju, Korea

Jin-Myung Jung

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Soon Chan Hong

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, 90 Chilam-dong Jinju, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AN WSL. Data curation: AN JWY. Formal analysis: AN WSL SCH. Funding acquisition: WSL GSK JMJ. Investigation: AN JNL. Methodology: AN WSL JWY SCH. Project administration: WSL. Resources: WSL JMJ JWY JNL S-HC J-HJ GSK. Software: AN JWY. Supervision: WSL. Validation: AN WSL. Visualization: AN WSL JNL. Writing – original draft: AN WSL. Writing – review & editing: AN WSL GSK.