About the Authors

Oriana D’Ecclesiis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ OD and CG are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Costanza Gavioli

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ OD and CG are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Chiara Martinoli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Sara Raimondi

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Susanna Chiocca

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Claudia Miccolo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Paolo Bossi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Oncology, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health University of Brescia, ASST-Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

Diego Cortinovis

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SC Oncologia Medica, Asst H S Gerardo Monza, Monza, Italy

Ferdinando Chiaradonna

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Roberta Palorini

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Federica Faciotti

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Federica Bellerba

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Stefania Canova

Roles Validation

Affiliation SC Oncologia Medica, Asst H S Gerardo Monza, Monza, Italy

Costantino Jemos

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Emanuela Omodeo Salé

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Aurora Gaeta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Barbara Zerbato

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Patrizia Gnagnarella

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

patrizia.gnagnarella@ieo.it (PG); sara.gandini@ieo.it (SG)

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Sara Gandini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

patrizia.gnagnarella@ieo.it (PG); sara.gandini@ieo.it (SG)

Affiliation Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.