About the Authors

Gianmauro Numico

gnumico@ausl.vda.it

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Antonella Cristofano

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Alessandro Mozzicafreddo

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Olga Elisabetta Cursio

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Pierfrancesco Franco

Affiliation University of Torino, Department of Oncology, Radiation Oncology Unit, Corso Bramante 88, 10126 Torino, Italy

Giulia Courthod

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Antonio Trogu

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Alessandra Malossi

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Mariella Cucchi

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Zuzana Sirotovà

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Maria Rosa Alvaro

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Anna Stella

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Fulvia Grasso

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Silvia Spinazzé

Affiliation Medical Oncology and Hematology, Azienda USL della Valle d’Aosta, Viale Ginevra 3, 11100 Aosta, Italy

Nicola Silvestris

Affiliation Medical Oncology Unit, National Cancer Research Center, Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", Viale Orazio Flacco 65, 70124 Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GN AC AM OEC PF NS. Performed the experiments: AC AM GC AT AM MC ZS MRA AS FG SS. Analyzed the data: GN OEC NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF NS. Wrote the paper: GN AC AM NS.