About the Authors

Sumanta K. Pal

spal@coh.org

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology & Experimental Therapeutics, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Rebecca A. Nelson

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Department of Information Science, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, United States of America

Nicholas Vogelzang

Affiliation US Oncology Research, Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKP RAN NV. Performed the experiments: SKP RAN NV. Analyzed the data: SKP RAN NV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKP RAN NV. Wrote the paper: SKP RAN NV.