Rajendra, Akhil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7167-4710
Sengar, Manju https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-5682
Korula, Anu
Ganesan, Prasanth
Jain, Hasmukh
K, Divya
Samuel, Prasanna
Perumal Kalaiyarasi, Jayachandran
Prakash, Gaurav https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4142-1592
John, M. Joseph
Palassery, Rasmi
Nair, Chandran K.
Shet, Tanuja
Selvarajan, Sushil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4045-3496
Nayak, Lingaraj
Karunakaran, Parathan
Fouzia, N. A.
Prakash, Om
Bagal, Bhausaheb https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-0182
Mehra, Nikita https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4605-7470
Kumaran, Saranya
Epari, Sridhar
Thorat, Jayshree
Radhakrishnan, Venkatraman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-5816
Abraham, Aby
Article History
Received: 24 September 2024
Revised: 4 January 2025
Accepted: 20 February 2025
First Online: 15 March 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee at each of the participating HCC member centers (TMC IEC Project Number: 900918). The study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Given the retrospective nature of the study, a waiver of consent was obtained at each of the participating centers. Data was entered into a central electronic database at each of these centers. To ensure quality control, the source data verification was done by a team of trained project managers.
: Waiver of consent was granted by the ethics committee in each of these centers.