About the Authors

Ksenija Božinović

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Ivan Sabol

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ivan.sabol@irb.hr (IS); grce@irb.hr (MG)

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Zoran Rakušić

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, Oncology Clinics, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Antonia Jakovčević

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Department of Pathology and Cytology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Mario Šekerija

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Croatian National Cancer Registry, Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia, School of Medicine, Andrija Štampar School of Public Health, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Juraj Lukinović

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases and Head and Neck Surgeries, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Drago Prgomet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases and Head and Neck Surgeries, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Magdalena Grce

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ivan.sabol@irb.hr (IS); grce@irb.hr (MG)

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.