About the Authors

Anne Korir

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Korir, Nathan Mauti

annkroir@yahoo.com (AK); sremick@hsc.wvu.edu (SCR)

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi Cancer Registry, Nairobi, Kenya

Nathan Mauti

Contributed equally to this work with: Anne Korir, Nathan Mauti

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi Cancer Registry, Nairobi, Kenya

Pamela Moats

Affiliation West Virginia University Hospitals, Health Information Management–Cancer Registry, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Matthew J. Gurka

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Geoffrey Mutuma

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi Cancer Registry, Nairobi, Kenya

Christine Metheny

Affiliation West Virginia University Hospitals, Health Information Management–Cancer Registry, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Peter M. Mwamba

Affiliation University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID), University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences, and Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Peter O. Oyiro

Affiliation University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID), University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences, and Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Melanie Fisher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Global Health Program (MF) and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center (SCR), West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Leona W. Ayers

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rosemary Rochford

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Walter O. Mwanda

Affiliation University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID), University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences, and Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Scot C. Remick

annkroir@yahoo.com (AK); sremick@hsc.wvu.edu (SCR)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Global Health Program (MF) and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center (SCR), West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exit.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK PM MF LWA RR WOM SCR. Performed the experiments: AK NM. Analyzed the data: AK NM MJG PMM POO SCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK NM PM MJG GM MF SCR. Wrote the paper: AK NM PM MJG GM CM PMM POO MF LWA RR WOM SCR.