About the Authors

Chrystiano de C. Ferreira

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

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

chrystiano_campos@yahoo.com.br

Affiliations Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Medicine, Federal University of Rondônia, Rondônia, Brazil

Rozany Dufloth

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Anatomical Pathology, Rede D’Or São Luiz Hospitals Network, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Medicine, Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ana C. de Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

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

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

Rui M. Reis

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, Medical School, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Iara Santana

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Raiany S. Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

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

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo R. Gama

Contributed equally to this work with: Chrystiano de C. Ferreira, Rozany Dufloth, Ana C. de Carvalho, Rui M. Reis, Iara Santana, Raiany S. Carvalho, Ricardo R. Gama

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.