About the Authors

Anna Goussia

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

agoussia@uoi.gr

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Nafsika Simou

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Flora Zagouri

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Kyriaki Manousou

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Section of Biostatistics, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece

Georgios Lazaridis

Roles Resources

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

Helen Gogas

Roles Resources

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Angelos Koutras

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece

Maria Sotiropoulou

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece

George Pentheroudakis

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

Dimitrios Bafaloukos

Roles Resources

Affiliation First Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Christos Markopoulos

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Prop. Surgery, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Helen Patsea

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, IASSO General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Christos Christodoulou

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Medical Oncology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Pavlos Papakostas

Roles Resources

Affiliation Oncology Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece

Thomas Zaramboukas

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece

Epaminontas Samantas

Roles Resources

Affiliation Third Department of Medical Oncology, Agii Anargiri Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece

Paris Kosmidis

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Medical Oncology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

Vasileios Venizelos

Roles Resources

Affiliation Breast Unit, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Charisios Karanikiotis

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, 424 Army General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

George Papatsibas

Roles Resources

Affiliation Oncology Department, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Grigorios Xepapadakis

Roles Resources

Affiliation Breast Clinic, REA Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

Konstantine T. Kalogeras

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Translational Research Section, Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group, Athens, Greece, Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Christina Bamia

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Vassiliki Malamou-Mitsi

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

George Fountzilas

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Hellenic Foundation for Cancer Research/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Anna Batistatou

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ioannina University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Competing Interests

As per Journal requirements, and on behalf of all authors, the authors confirm that they have the following interests: HG: Honoraria from BMS, MSD, Roche, Novartis, AMGEN. Research grants from BMS, Roche, Novartis. ES: Advisory Board of Merck, MSD, AstaZeneca, Roche, Amgen and Genesis. GF: Advisory Board of Pfizer, Sanofi and Roche. Honoraria from AstraZeneca. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.