Kaufman, Bar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7740-0473
Taha, Tarek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7936-5245
Abramov, Orli
Zohar, Yaniv
Mhameed, Kamel
Cohen, Ofir
Porgador, Angel
Elkabets, Moshe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-9098
Billan, Salem
Funding for this research was provided by:
Israel Science Foundation (302/21, 2484/19, 2802/22)
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2019377)
Israel Cancer Research Fund (81071411)
Article History
Received: 5 February 2024
Accepted: 22 May 2024
First Online: 3 June 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel (Approval number: 0457-20-RMB). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. As this was a retrospective study using de-identified patient data, a waiver of informed consent was granted by the Ethics Committee due to the research involving no risk to subjects and the impracticality of obtaining consent.