Pucci, Marzia
Moschetti, Marta
Urzì, Ornella
Loria, Marco
Conigliaro, Alice
Di Bella, Maria Antonietta
Crescitelli, Rossella
Olofsson Bagge, Roger
Gallo, Alessia
Santos, Mark F.
Puglisi, Caterina
Forte, Stefano
Lorico, Aurelio
Alessandro, Riccardo
Fontana, Simona
Funding for this research was provided by:
AIRC fellowship "Volontari Comitato Sicilia" (22542)
FFABR 2017, Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MUR) – Italy
Article History
Received: 17 November 2022
Accepted: 31 March 2023
First Online: 18 April 2023
Declarations
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: Human plasma collections were approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee Catania 2—ARNAS Garibaldi Hospital, Catania, Italy (approval date: 20/07/2020; approval number 436/C.E.) and by the Institutional Ethicscancer mucosa Committee Palermo 1—Policlinic University Hospital “Paolo Giaccone”, Palermo, Italy (approval date: 23/09/2020; approval number 8/2020); number and characteristics of enrolled subjects: healthy donors (n = 5), CRC patients without metastasis (n = 5). Colorectal cancer tissue samples (n = 2) and adjacent non-CRC mucosa (n = 2) were collected from patients undergoing surgical tumor resection at the Department of Surgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Central Ethical Review Board of Gothenburg (Dnr 995–16 and 2019–04873). All enrolled individuals provided informed consent according to the protocol approved by the referent institutional review board.
: The manuscript has been read and approved by all named authors.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.