Blázquez-Encinas, Ricardo
García-Vioque, Víctor
Mafficini, Andrea
Landoni, Luca
Ruiz-Palacios, Daniel
Gutiérrez-Camacho, Laura
Moreno-Montilla, María Trinidad
Alcala, Nicolas
Ventura, Sebastián
Eyras, Eduardo
Paiella, Salvatore
Salvia, Roberto
Rovite, Vita
Foll, Matthieu
Luchini, Claudio
Fernandez-Cuesta, Lynnette
Lawlor, Rita T.
Scarpa, Aldo
Ibáñez-Costa, Alejandro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-0095
Pedraza-Arevalo, Sergio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-6589
Castaño, Justo P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3145-7287
Funding for this research was provided by:
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (26343)
Fondazione Cariverona: Oncology Biobank Project 'Antonio Schiavi' (203885/2017)
Fondazione Italiana per la ricerca sulle Malattie del Pancreas (FIMP-J38D19000690001)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (PID2019‐105201RB‐I00)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2026
Accepted: 18 June 2026
First Online: 9 July 2026
Declarations
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: Patient samples and data were collected by the ARC-Net Research Centre biobank, University of Verona, Italy, under Prog. 1885 (Prot. N. 52070) from the Integrated University Hospital Trust Ethics Committee (AUOI-CE) and used in this study under protocol CE2172 (Prot. N. 26773). The procedures were performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and every patient signed an informed consent document.
: Not applicable.
: Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/WHO, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the International Agency for Research on Cancer/WHO.