De Laurentiis, Michelino
Bonfadini, Chiara
Lorusso, Vito
Cilenti, Giuseppina
Di Rella, Francesca
Altavilla, Giuseppe
Otero, Manuela
Ardizzoia, Antonio
Marchetti, Paolo
Peverelli, Giorgia
Amoroso, Domenico
Vecchio, Stefania
Fiorio, Elena
Orecchia, Simona
Article History
Received: 13 July 2017
Accepted: 6 May 2018
First Online: 25 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: P.M. attended board and funding from MSD, BMS, Novartis, Astellas, Roche, Boeringer, Bayer, Celgene, Ipsen, Italfarmaco, Jansenn, Lilly. M.D.L. played an advisory role for Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca, Italfarmaco, and Amgen and received speaker’s honoraria from Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca, Italfarmaco, and Amgen and research funding from Roche, Astra-Zeneca, Helsinn. S.O. is a MSD employee. The other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.
: 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 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the local ethics committee and was in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments; signed written informed consent was obtained from all patients.