About the Authors

Pierre Boyé

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Boyé, François Serres, Laurent Marescaux, Dominique Tierny

pierre_boye@hotmail.fr

Affiliations Oncovet-Clinical-Research (OCR), SIRIC ONCOLille, Parc Eurasanté, Loos, France, Oncovet, SIRIC ONCOLille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

François Serres

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Boyé, François Serres, Laurent Marescaux, Dominique Tierny

Affiliations Oncovet-Clinical-Research (OCR), SIRIC ONCOLille, Parc Eurasanté, Loos, France, Oncovet, SIRIC ONCOLille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Laurent Marescaux

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Boyé, François Serres, Laurent Marescaux, Dominique Tierny

Affiliation Oncovet, SIRIC ONCOLille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Juliette Hordeaux

Affiliation Oncovet-Clinical-Research (OCR), SIRIC ONCOLille, Parc Eurasanté, Loos, France

Emmanuel Bouchaert

Affiliation Oncovet-Clinical-Research (OCR), SIRIC ONCOLille, Parc Eurasanté, Loos, France

Bruno Gomes

Current address: iTeos Therapeutics, Gosselies, Belgium

Affiliation Institut de Recherche Pierre Fabre, Toulouse, France

Dominique Tierny

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre Boyé, François Serres, Laurent Marescaux, Dominique Tierny

Affiliations Oncovet-Clinical-Research (OCR), SIRIC ONCOLille, Parc Eurasanté, Loos, France, Oncovet, SIRIC ONCOLille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Competing Interests

This study was conducted by Oncovet Clinical Research (OCR) as part of a collaborative research project between OCR and Pierre Fabre Medicament. OCR provided support in the form of salaries for authors FS, JH, EB, and DT. OCR did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Pierre Fabre Medicament provided support in the form of salaries for BG. Pierre Fabre Medicament did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FS BG DT. Data curation: PB EB DT. Formal analysis: PB FS DT. Funding acquisition: BG DT. Investigation: PB FS LM JH EB DT. Project administration: BG DT. Supervision: DT. Writing – original draft: PB JH BG DT. Writing – review & editing: PB FS LM JH EB BG DT.