About the Authors

Patrizio Castagnola

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrizio Castagnola, Sergio Gandolfo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

patrizio.castagnola@hsanmartino.it

Affiliation Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy

Sergio Gandolfo

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrizio Castagnola, Sergio Gandolfo

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Davide Malacarne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy

Cinzia Aiello

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy

Roberto Marino

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Gabriele Zoppoli

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy, Department of Internal Medicine (Di.M.I.), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Alberto Ballestrero

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy, Department of Internal Medicine (Di.M.I.), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Walter Giaretti

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Integrated Oncological Therapies, IRCCS AOU - San Martino - IST, Genoa, Italy

Monica Pentenero

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.