About the Authors

Vivian Colón-López

vivian.colon@upr.edu

Affiliations Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Department of Health Services Administration, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ana Patricia Ortiz

Affiliations Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Lizbeth Del Toro-Mejías

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Michael Craig Clatts

Affiliation Center for Research on Global Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Joel M. Palefsky

Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: Dr. J. Palefsky has received research funding and travel support from Merck and Co. and research support from Hologic. Dr. Ortiz has a research contract with Merck and Co. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter in any way the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VCL APO MCC JMP. Performed the experiments: VCL APO MCC JMP. Analyzed the data: VCL APO LDTM MCC JMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMP. Wrote the paper: VCL APO LDTM MCC JMP.