About the Authors

Maria Carmen Romero-Medina

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carmen Romero-Medina, Assunta Venuti

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Assunta Venuti

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carmen Romero-Medina, Assunta Venuti

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Giusi Melita

Roles Investigation

Current address: Giusi Melita, Laboratory of Cell and Gene Therapy "Stefano Verri", Tettamanti Research Center, ASST-Monza, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy;

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Alexis Robitaille

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Maria Grazia Ceraolo

Roles Investigation

Current address: Maria Grazia Ceraolo, Tumor Immunology Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy;

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Laura Pacini

Roles Investigation

Current address: Laura Pacini, Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom;

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Cecilia Sirand

Roles Investigation

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Daniele Viarisio

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Current address: Daniele Viarisio, Freelance

Affiliation Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany

Valerio Taverniti

Roles Investigation

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Purnima Gupta

Roles Investigation

Current address: Purnima Gupta, Duve Institute Université Catholique de Louvain–UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Mariafrancesca Scalise

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Unit of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department DiBEST (Biologia, Ecologia, Scienze della Terra), University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

Cesare Indiveri

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Unit of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department DiBEST (Biologia, Ecologia, Scienze della Terra), University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

Rosita Accardi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Massimo Tommasino

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

tommasinom@iarc.fr

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), World Health Organization, Cours Albert Thomas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.