Li Petri, Giovanna
El Hassouni, Btissame
Sciarrillo, Rocco
Funel, Niccola
Mantini, Giulia
Zeeuw van der Laan, Eveline A.
Cascioferro, Stella
Avan, Amir
Zucali, Paolo Andrea
Zaffaroni, Nadia
Lagerweij, Tonny
Parrino, Barbara
Smid, Kees
Deraco, Marcello
Granchi, Carlotta
Braczko, Alicja
Smolenski, Ryszard T.
Matherly, Larry H.
Jansen, Gerrit
Assaraf, Yehuda G.
Diana, Patrizia
Cloos, Jacqueline
Peters, Godefridus J.
Minutolo, Filippo
Giovannetti, Elisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7565-7504
Funding for this research was provided by:
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Start-Up)
KWF Kankerbestrijding (11957)
Article History
Received: 11 October 2019
Revised: 12 March 2020
Accepted: 7 May 2020
First Online: 4 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Local Ethics Committee of the Humanitas Cancer Center (Rozzano, Milano, Italy) and National Cancer Center (Milano, Italy). Patients who provided tissues and primary cell cultures have provided a written informed consent. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Consent to publish has been obtained from all the participants (or legal parent or guardian for children) to report individual patient data.
: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and in supplementary information files).
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was partially supported in the collections and analysis of data by the following grants: “the Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos Grant” from the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF), United States (Elisa Giovannetti, Paolo A Zucali, Filippo Minutolo and Godefridus J. Peters), Fondazione Humanitas, Milano, Italy (Elisa Giovannetti, Paolo A Zucali), CCA Foundation 2012 (Elisa Giovannetti, Godefridus J Peters and Amir Avan), 2013 (Jacqueline Cloos, Elisa Giovannetti) 2015 and 2016 (Elisa Giovannetti) grants, KWF Dutch Cancer Society grants (KWF project# 10401 and # 11957, Elisa Giovannetti), Polish National Science Center project 2018/31/B/NZ7/02909 (Godefridus J. Peters, Elisa Giovannetti, Filippo Minutolo and Ryszard T. Smolenski), University of Pisa (Intramural Funds, Carlotta Granchi, Elisa Giovannetti and Filippo MInutolo), Italian Association for Cancer Research AIRC/Start-Up grant and (Elisa Giovannetti), R01 CA53535 (Larry Matherly) from the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice and Milton Ring Endowed Chair for Cancer Research (Larry Matherly).