About the Authors

Anastasios T. Mitsakos

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios T. Mitsakos, William Irish, Alexander A. Parikh, Rebecca A. Snyder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

William Irish

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios T. Mitsakos, William Irish, Alexander A. Parikh, Rebecca A. Snyder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexander A. Parikh

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios T. Mitsakos, William Irish, Alexander A. Parikh, Rebecca A. Snyder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Rebecca A. Snyder

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios T. Mitsakos, William Irish, Alexander A. Parikh, Rebecca A. Snyder

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

snyderre19@ecu.edu

Affiliations Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.