Kirienko, Margarita http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3923-1151
Sollini, Martina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2214-6492
Corbetta, Marinella http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3774-7760
Voulaz, Emanuele
Gozzi, Noemi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0126-7893
Interlenghi, Matteo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3066-4276
Gallivanone, Francesca http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6559-6157
Castiglioni, Isabella http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-5417
Asselta, Rosanna http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5351-0619
Duga, Stefano http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3457-1410
Soldà , Giulia http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0972-610X
Chiti, Arturo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5806-1856
Funding for this research was provided by:
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (IG2016 - 18585)
Article History
Received: 21 January 2021
Accepted: 14 April 2021
First Online: 7 May 2021
Declarations
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: The Ethics Committee of the Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre IRCCS approved the study on 18 April 2017, with the authorisation number 1751.
: All the patients who donated their tissue samples to the biobank signed informed consent for the usage of their data, imaging, and samples for a research purpose; for the remaining patients, because of the observational and retrospective study design, a specific, informed consent was waived.
: Prof. Chiti reports a fellowship grant from Sanofi, personal fees from AAA, Blue Earth Diagnostics, and General Electric Healthcare, outside the submitted work. The other authors do not report any conflict of interest.