Metovic, Jasna
Annaratone, Laura
Linari, Alessandra
Osella-Abate, Simona
Musuraca, Chiara
Veneziano, Francesca
Vignale, Chiara
Bertero, Luca
Cassoni, Paola
Ratto, Nicola
Comandone, Alessandro
Grignani, Giovanni
Piana, Raimondo
Papotti, Mauro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fondazione per i Tumori muscolo scheletrici (1704/2018)
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca—MIUR (D15D18000410001)
Article History
Received: 19 August 2019
Accepted: 27 April 2020
First Online: 6 May 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approval was granted by the Research Ethics Committee for Human Biospecimen Utilization (Department of Medical Sciences—ChBU) of the University of Turin (n° 10/2019). This study does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
: Before the study started, all cases were de-identified and coded by a pathology staff member not involved in the study, and all data were accessed anonymously. Considering the retrospective nature of this research protocol with no impact on patients’ treatment and the use of anonymized data only, no written consent was required by the Committee.