Valenzuela, Paloma
Oaxaca, Derrick
Di Desidero, Teresa
Parra, Karla
Rodriguez, Georgialina
Manciu, Marian
Allegrini, Giacomo
Falcone, Alfredo
Bocci, Guido
Kirken, Robert A.
Francia, Giulio http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3752-3070
Article History
Received: 12 May 2020
Accepted: 16 September 2020
First Online: 13 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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 plasma samples used in this study were collected as part of a previous study that was approved by the local ethics committee and registered in the European Clinical Trial Database EudraCT (ExternalRef removed; EudraCT registration number 2007-000065-38), and patients were informed of the investigational nature of the study, providing their written informed consent, including for the subsequent plasma biomarker analysis. All the experiments comply with the current Italian laws.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.