About the Authors

Rafael Rosell

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rrosell@ico.scs.es

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Marcin Skrzypski

Affiliations Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Ewa Jassem

Affiliation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Miquel Taron

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Roberta Bartolucci

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria, Terni, Italy

Jose Javier Sanchez

Affiliation Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Pedro Mendez

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Imane Chaib

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Laia Perez-Roca

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Amelia Szymanowska

Affiliation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Witold Rzyman

Affiliation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Francesco Puma

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria, Terni, Italy

Grazyna Kobierska-Gulida

Affiliation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Raffaele Farabi

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria, Terni, Italy

Jacek Jassem

Affiliation Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR JJ. Performed the experiments: MS MT PM IC LP. Analyzed the data: MS MT JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR EJ MT RB AS WR FP RF JJ GK. Wrote the paper: RR.