About the Authors

Ashwin Kotnis

Current address: Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Junghyun Namkung

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sadhana Kannan

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Nallala Jayakrupakar

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Taesung Park

Affiliation Department of Statistics, College of Natural Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Rajiv Sarin

rsarin@actrec.gov.in (RS); rmulherkar@actrec.gov.in (RM)

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Rita Mulherkar

rsarin@actrec.gov.in (RS); rmulherkar@actrec.gov.in (RM)

Affiliation Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK RM. Performed the experiments: AK NJ. Analyzed the data: AK SK JN TP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM RS. Wrote the paper: AK RS RM. Patient accrual: RS.