About the Authors
- Yoshan Moodley
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: moodleyyo@ukzn.ac.za
Affiliations Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Group, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
- Jacqueline van Wyk
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Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Health Sciences Education, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Clinical Medicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Yuming Ning
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Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
- Steven Wexner
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ellen Leifer Shulman and Steven Shulman Digestive Disease Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, United States of America
- Cathrine Gounden
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Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Group, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Vasudevan Naidoo
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Group, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Shakeel Kader
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Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Group, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Alfred I. Neugut
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medicine and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
- Ravi P. Kiran
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. Neugut has consulted for Otsuka, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, United Biosource Corp, Value Analytics, Hospira, and serves on the medical advisory board of EHE Intl. Dr. Neugut also has grant support from Otsuka. The other authors do not report any conflicts of interest related to this research. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.