About the Authors

Judith Schwartzbaum

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith Schwartzbaum, Min Wang

ja.schwartzbaum@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Min Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith Schwartzbaum, Min Wang

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Elisabeth Root

Affiliation Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Maciej Pietrzak

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Grzegorz A. Rempala

Affiliations Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ruo-Pan Huang

Affiliations RayBiotech, Inc., Norcross, Georgia, United States of America, RayBiotech, Inc. Guangzhou, China

Tom Borge Johannesen

Affiliation Department of Registration, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway

Tom K. Grimsrud

Affiliation Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

Ruo-Pan Huang is employed by RayBiotech, Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JS TKG TBJ. Data curation: TBJ TKG JS. Formal analysis: JS MW MP. Funding acquisition: JS. Investigation: RPH TBJ TKG. Methodology: JS MW ER MP GAR RPH TKG. Project administration: JS. Resources: TBJ TKG RPH. Software: JS MW MP. Supervision: JS. Validation: JS MW ER. Visualization: JS MW MP. Writing – original draft: JS MW ER. Writing – review & editing: JS.