About the Authors

Heidi Fritz

Affiliation Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dugald Seely

dseely@ccnm.edu

Affiliations Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Integrative Cancer Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Gillian Flower

Affiliation Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Becky Skidmore

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rochelle Fernandes

Affiliations Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sarah Vadeboncoeur

Affiliation Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deborah Kennedy

Affiliations Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kieran Cooley

Affiliations Department of Research & Clinical Epidemiology, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raimond Wong

Affiliation Juravinski Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Stephen Sagar

Affiliation Juravinski Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Elham Sabri

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dean Fergusson

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HF DS DK KC RW SS DF. Performed the experiments: HF GF BS RF SV. Analyzed the data: HF GF KC ES DS DF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF ES. Wrote the manuscript: HF DS GF BS RF SV DK KC RW SS ES DF.