About the Authors

Alexandra V. Stavropoulou

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Florentia Fostira

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Maroulio Pertesi

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Marianthi Tsitlaidou

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Gerassimos E. Voutsinas

Affiliation Laboratory of Environmental Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Olga Triantafyllidou

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Aristotelis Bamias

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

Meletios A. Dimopoulos

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

Eleni Timotheadou

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

Dimitrios Pectasides

Affiliation Oncology Section, Second Department of Internal Medicine, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

Christos Christodoulou

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

George Klouvas

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

Christos Papadimitriou

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

Thomas Makatsoris

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

George Pentheroudakis

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

Gerasimos Aravantinos

Affiliation Second Department of Medical Oncology, “Agii Anargiri” Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece

Vassilis Karydakis

Affiliation 1st Department of Surgery, Rhodes General Hospital, Rhodes, Greece

Drakoulis Yannoukakos

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

George Fountzilas

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

Irene Konstantopoulou

reena@rrp.demokritos.gr

Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRaSTES, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVS IK DY FF. Performed the experiments: AVS FF MP MT GEV. Analyzed the data: AVS IK DY FF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB MAD ET DP CC GK CP TM GP GA VK GF OT. Wrote the paper: AVS FF IK DY.