About the Authors

Nur Nadiatul Asyikin Bujang

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

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia

Yek Ching Kong

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muthukkumaran Thiagarajan

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

April Camilla Roslani

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia, Clinical Research Centre, Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia

Matin Mellor Abdullah

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

Mehesinder Singh

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Society Malaysia (CORUM), Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Wan Zamaniah Wan Ishak

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Oncology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Awang Bulgiba

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mahmoud Danaee

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

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ovenjjay@gmail.com, nirmala.bhoopathy@ummc.edu.my

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have no financial and non-financial conflict of interest to declare.