About the Authors

Hirotaka Shinomiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

hshino@med.kobe-u.ac.jp (HS); nibu@med.kobe-u.ac.jp (KIN)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Hitomi Shinomiya

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Mie Kubo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yuki Saito

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery-Otolaryngology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masafumi Yoshida

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery-Otolaryngology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Mizuo Ando

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery-Otolaryngology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masanori Teshima

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Naoki Otsuki

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Naomi Kiyota

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Ryohei Sasaki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Ken-ichi Nibu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

hshino@med.kobe-u.ac.jp (HS); nibu@med.kobe-u.ac.jp (KIN)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.