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Esposito, Giovanna
Franchi, Matteo
Dalmartello, Michela
Scarfone, Giovanna
Negri, Eva
Parazzini, Fabio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5624-4854
La Vecchia, Carlo
Corrao, Giovanni
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (’PRIN’ 2017, project 2017728JPK)
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Received: 10 September 2020
Accepted: 17 December 2020
First Online: 7 January 2021
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: Giovanni Corrao received research support from the European Community (EC), the Italian Agency of Drugs (AIFA), and the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR). He took part in a variety of projects that were funded by pharmaceutical companies (i.e. Novartis, GSK, Roche, AMGEN and BMS). He also received honoraria as a member of the advisory board to Roche. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
