Goulenko, Victor https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9746-7931
Fekrmandi, Fatemeh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8412-9802
Madhugiri, Venkatesh Shankar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-9707
Almeida, Neil D.
Lipinski, Lindsay
Fabiano, Andrew J.
Snyder, Kenneth V.
Chatta, Gurkamal
Guru, Kurshid A.
Kuettel, Michael R.
Fenstermaker, Robert A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0309-8130
Plunkett, Robert J. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9388-9876
Prasad, Dheerendra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6615-4235
Article History
Received: 1 August 2025
Accepted: 12 January 2026
First Online: 14 January 2026
Declarations
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: This observational study was approved by the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Institutional Review Board under the identification number 2786. The study protocol was carried out in accordance with the ethical standards established in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments. All necessary written informed consents were obtained. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All authors have reviewed and approved the final version of this manuscript and consent to its publication in Discover Oncology – Springer Nature. The work is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All applicable ethical standards were followed, and informed consent was obtained when required. Patient data have been de-identified to protect privacy.
: The author Dheerendra Prasad works as a consultant for Elekta, AB (Stockholm, Sweden). The other authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.