1Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
2Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
3Department of Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada
4Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
5Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
6Oral Biopsy Service, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
7Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Halifax, Canada
8Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
9Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
10Department of Anatomical Pathology, QEII Hospital, Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Canada
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