Jacob, Jini Sara
George, Preethi Sara
Mathew, Beela Sarah
Nair, Rekha A.
Mathew, Aleyamma
Article History
Received: 3 October 2025
Accepted: 22 November 2025
First Online: 27 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethical approval. Ethical approval was obtained from Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. (HEC approval no: 02/2010 renewal dated 21/02/2019).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors used ChatGPT ( ) for improving language and readability at the initial draft sections. Later, the authors reviewed and edited the manuscript as required and have taken full responsibility for the content of the publication.