Fattah, Nasra F. Abdel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1462-037X
Youssef, Amira Salah El-Din https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-691X
Hashem, Tarek M.
Abdel-Wahed, Marwa A.
Hafez, Fatma S. S.
Salem, Mona A. A.
Salama, Asmaa M. M.
Agwa, Sara H. A.
Elghazaly, Hesham
El-Mahdy, Manal M.
Khalifa, Mahmoud https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-1722
Loutfy, Samah Aly https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-434X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cairo University
Article History
Received: 4 April 2026
Accepted: 25 August 2026
First Online: 26 September 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethical approval and accordance: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt (Organization No.IORG0003381; Approval No.201617023.2P). The study was conducted in accordance with institutional guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent to participate: Written informed consent was freely obtained from all participants prior to sample collection, in accordance with ethical and institutional guidelines.