About the Authors

Andrea Casadei Gardini

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Casadei Gardini, Laura Capelli, Paola Ulivi

casadeigardini@gmail.com

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Laura Capelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Casadei Gardini, Laura Capelli, Paola Ulivi

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Paola Ulivi

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Casadei Gardini, Laura Capelli, Paola Ulivi

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Massimo Giannini

Affiliation Radiotherapy Unit, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy

Eva Freier

Affiliation Oncology Unit, Degli Infermi Hospital, Faenza, Italy

Stefano Tamberi

Affiliation Oncology Unit, Degli Infermi Hospital, Faenza, Italy

Emanuela Scarpi

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Alassandro Passardi

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Wainer Zoli

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Angela Ragazzini

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Dino Amadori

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Giovanni Luca Frassineti

Affiliation Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACG LC PU. Performed the experiments: LC PU. Analyzed the data: ACG LC PU ES. Wrote the paper: ACG MG EF ST AP LC PU. Conception and design of the work: ACG DA. Acquisition of data: ACG MG EF ST AP AR. Analysis and interpretation of data: ACG LC PU ES. Drafting the article: ACG MG EF ST AP LC PU. Revising the article critically for important intellectual content: WZ GLF. Final approval of the version to be published: ACG LC PU MG EF ST ES AP WZ AR DA GLF.