About the Authors

Zeinab Hamidou

aazeinab@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Public health laboratory, EA 3279-College of Medicine, Marseille, France

Tienhan S. Dabakuyo-Yonli

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Biostatistic and Quality of Life Unit, Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon, France, EA 4184, College of Medicine, Dijon, France

Francis Guillemin

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Inserm, CIC-EC, department of clinical epidemiology and evaluation, university hospital of Nancy, Nancy, France

Thierry Conroy

Affiliation Medical oncology department, Centre Alexis Vautrin, Nancy, France

Michel Velten

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Epidemiology and public health laboratory, College of Medicine, Strasbourg, France

Damien Jolly

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, University hospital of Reims, Reims, France

Sylvain Causeret

Affiliation Surgery department, Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon, France

Olivier Graesslin

Affiliation Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Mother Child Institute, University hospital of Reims, Reims, France

Mélanie Gauthier

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Biostatistic and Quality of Life Unit, Centre Georges François Leclerc, Dijon, France, EA 4184, College of Medicine, Dijon, France

Mariette Mercier

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Cellular and Molecular Biology Laboratory, University hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France

Franck. Bonnetain

Affiliations Quality of life and Cancer clinical research Platform, Marseille, France, Methodology and quality of Life in Oncology unit (EA 3181), University hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB ZH MM. Performed the experiments: FG TC MV DJ. Analyzed the data: FB ZH TSD MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC OG. Wrote the paper: FB ZH TSD.