Tassi, Renata A.
Gambino, Angela
Ardighieri, Laura
Bignotti, Eliana
Todeschini, Paola
Romani, Chiara
Zanotti, Laura
Bugatti, Mattia
Borella, Fulvio
Katsaros, Dionyssios
Tognon, Germana
Sartori, Enrico
Odicino, Franco
Romualdi, Chiara
Ravaggi, Antonella http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4661-9979
Funding for this research was provided by:
E.U.L.O. Foundation [Italy] Donazione Pizzini Maria [italy]
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (IG17185)
Article History
Received: 18 January 2019
Revised: 26 July 2019
Accepted: 1 August 2019
First Online: 22 August 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: 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, and approved by the Research Review Board—the Ethic Committee—of the ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy (study reference number: NP1676). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The study was supported in part by grants from: EULO Foundation and Donazione Pizzini Maria Luisa to F. Odicino, Italian Association for Cancer Research (IG17185) to C. Romualdi, and Fondazione Umberto Veronesi post-doctoral fellowship to C. Romani and P. Todeschini.
: Not applicable.
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