About the Authors

Giannis Mountzios

gmountzios@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, 251 Airforce General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Ioannis Kostopoulos

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Vassiliki Kotoula

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece, Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ioanna Sfakianaki

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Elena Fountzilas

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Konstantinos Markou

Affiliation First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ilias Karasmanis

Affiliation ENT Department, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Sofia Leva

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Nikolaos Angouridakis

Affiliation First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Konstantinos Vlachtsis

Affiliation First Department of Otorhinolaryngology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Angelos Nikolaou

Affiliation ENT Department, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ioannis Konstantinidis

Affiliation ENT Department, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

George Fountzilas

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM I. Kostopoulos VK GF. Performed the experiments: I. Kostopoulos VK IS SL. Analyzed the data: GM I. Kostopoulos VK IS EF GF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: I. Konstantinidis VK KM I. Karasmanis NA KV AN JC GF. Wrote the paper: GM I. Kostopoulos VK GF.