About the Authors

Wenyue Sun

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

David Zaboli

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yan Liu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Demetri Arnaoutakis

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tanbir Khan

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hao Wang

Affiliation Division of Oncology Biostatistics, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Wayne Koch

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zubair Khan

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph A. Califano

jcalifa@jhmi.edu.

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Milton J. Dance Head and Neck Center, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS JAC. Performed the experiments: WS DZ YL. Analyzed the data: WS JAC HW YL DA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS DZ YL DA HW TK WK ZK JAC. Wrote the paper: WS JAC.