Donida, B. M.
Tomasello, G.
Ghidini, M.
Buffoli, F.
Grassi, M.
Liguigli, W.
Maglietta, G.
Pergola, L.
Ratti, M.
Sabadini, G.
Toppo, L.
Ungari, M.
Passalacqua, R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
MEDeA onlus
Article History
Received: 30 May 2018
Accepted: 11 February 2019
First Online: 8 March 2019
Authors’ information
: BMD is a PhD Medical Biotechnologist who started to collect the data of this registry in 2012 as Clinical Study Coordinator in an Oncology department. Later she specialized in Health Biometry and as Biostatistician, she sought to make sense of this collection of data, with the ambitious aim of contributing to the characterization of Gastric Cancer patients who are inhabitants of an Italian area characterized by a high incidence of this pathology, in order to focus attention on prevention.
: Italian legislation identifies cancer registries as collectors of personal data for surveillance purposes without explicit individual consent. The approval of a research ethics committee is not required, since this study is a descriptive study without any direct or indirect intervention on patients (DM n.17A03142 3/3/17 GU n.109 5/12/17″ (available at: ExternalRef removed/ eli/id/2017/05/12/17A03142/sg, latest access on 7/16/18).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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