About the Authors

Tia S. Sutton

Contributed equally to this work with: Tia S. Sutton, Scarlett Hao

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Scarlett Hao

Contributed equally to this work with: Tia S. Sutton, Scarlett Hao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Mizuki Suzuki

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Aimei Chua

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Anna Lisa Ciarrocca

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Michael D. Honaker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

honakerm21@ecu.edu

Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.