About the Authors

Niamh Lynam-Lennon

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Stephen G. Maher

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Lab, School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Aoife Maguire

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

James Phelan

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Cian Muldoon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

John V. Reynolds

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Jacintha O’Sullivan

osullij4@tcd.ie

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NLL JNOS SGM. Performed the experiments: NLL. Analyzed the data: NLL JNOS JP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JVR. Wrote the paper: NLL. Pathological assessment of tissue: AM CM.