About the Authors

Tania Fleitas

tfleitask@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Vicenta Martínez-Sales

Affiliation Research Center,Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Virtudes Vila

Affiliation Research Center,Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Edelmiro Reganon

Affiliation Research Center,Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

David Mesado

Affiliation Research Center,Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Maria Martín

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

José Gómez-Codina

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Joaquín Montalar

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Gaspar Reynés

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Competing Interests

The following industries: Roche Pharma, Amgen, Lilly, MSD, and Bayer contributed financially to the purchase of reagents and for hiring a laboratory technician, in accordance with legal procedure of the foundation of Hospital La Fe for donations,without any kind of interest in the results of the study, and they did not participated in any other aspect in the study.This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TF VMS VV GR. Performed the experiments: TF VMS VV DM. Analyzed the data: TF VMS VV ER GR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TF VMS VV JGC JM GR. Wrote the paper: TF VMS VV MM GR.