Kirienko, Margarita
Cozzi, Luca
Rossi, Alexia
Voulaz, Emanuele
Antunovic, Lidija
Fogliata, Antonella
Chiti, Arturo
Sollini, Martina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2214-6492
Article History
Received: 8 January 2018
Accepted: 22 February 2018
First Online: 6 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: A. Chiti received speaker honoraria from General Electric and Sirtex Medical System, acted as scientific advisor to Blue Earth Diagnostics and Advanced Accelerator Applications, and benefited from an unconditional grant from Sanofi to Humanitas University. All honoraria and grants are outside the scope of the submitted work.L. Cozzi acts as Scientific Advisor to Varian Medical Systems. All honoraria are outside the scope of the submitted work.M. Kirienko is supported by an AIRC (Italian Association for Cancer Research) scholarship funded by a grant won by A.C. (IG-2016-18,585).All other authors have no conflicts of interest.
: The study was approved by the institutional Ethics Committee. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: For this type of study (i.e. retrospective), formal consent was not required.