About the Authors

Fu-Cheng Chuang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Chun Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jian-Han Chen

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of General Surgery, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tzer-Zen Hwang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shyh-An Yeh

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Yu-Chieh Su

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.