Dal Maso, L. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6163-200X
Panato, C.
De Paoli, A.
Mattioli, V.
Serraino, D.
Elisei, R.
Zoppini, G.
Gobitti, C.
Borsatti, E.
Di Felice, E.
Falcini, F.
Ferretti, S.
Francisci, S.
Giorgi Rossi, P.
Guzzinati, S.
Mazzoleni, G.
Pierannunzio, D.
Piffer, S.
Vaccarella, S.
Vicentini, M.
Zorzi, M.
Franceschi, S.
Fedeli, U. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9939-3398
Avossa, F.
De Palma, R.
Vattiato, R.
Polverino, A.
Vittadello, F.
Toffolutti, F.
Fanetti, G.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro ((grant no. 16921))
Italian Ministry of Health (RCR-2020-23670066)
Association pour la Recherche Thérapeutique Anti-Cancéreuse (Overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and outcome in cancer patients, WP 7)
Article History
Received: 23 September 2020
Accepted: 24 November 2020
First Online: 18 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared no competing interests.
: The Italian legislation identifies regional health authorities as collectors of personal data for surveillance purposes without explicit individual consent. The approval of a research ethic committee is not required, since this study is a descriptive analysis of anonymous aggregate data without any direct or indirect intervention on patients (Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, 3/3/2017, Identificazione dei sistemi di sorveglianza e dei registri di mortalità, di tumori e di altre patologie, 17A03142, GU Serie Generale n.109 del 12-05-2017). Available at: ExternalRef removed, last access: 15/07/2020.