About the Authors

Ioannis Boukovinas

Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Boukovinas, Chara Papadaki

Affiliation “Theagenion” Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Chara Papadaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Boukovinas, Chara Papadaki

Affiliation Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Pedro Mendez

Affiliation Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

Miquel Taron

Affiliations Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, Pangaea Biotech, USP Dexeus University, C/Sabino Arana 5, Barcelona, Spain

Dimitris Mavroudis

Affiliations Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Anastasios Koutsopoulos

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Maria Sanchez-Ronco

Affiliation University of Alcala de Henares, Alcala de Henares, Spain

Jose Javier Sanchez

Affiliation Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Maria Trypaki

Affiliation Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Eustathios Staphopoulos

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Vassilis Georgoulias

Affiliations Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Rafael Rosell

rrosell@ico.scs.es (RR); georgsec@med.uoc.gr (JS)

Affiliations Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, Pangaea Biotech, USP Dexeus University, C/Sabino Arana 5, Barcelona, Spain

John Souglakos

rrosell@ico.scs.es (RR); georgsec@med.uoc.gr (JS)

Affiliations Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece, Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VG JS. Performed the experiments: CP PM MT DM MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB DM AK. Wrote the paper: MSR RR. Supervised the Laboratory work: MT. Evaluation of the samples: AK ES. Performed the statistical analyses: MSR JJS.