About the Authors

Giuseppe Cafueri

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Federica Parodi

Affiliation Laboratory of Oncology, IRCCS Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Angela Pistorio

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, IRCCS Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Maria Bertolotto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Francesco Ventura

Affiliation Department of Legal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Claudio Gambini

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, IRCCS Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Paolo Bianco

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Franco Dallegri

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Vito Pistoia

Affiliation Laboratory of Oncology, IRCCS Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Annalisa Pezzolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Annalisa Pezzolo, Domenico Palombo

annalisapezzolo@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Oncology, IRCCS Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy

Domenico Palombo

Contributed equally to this work with: Annalisa Pezzolo, Domenico Palombo

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Pezzolo VP GC DP. Performed the experiments: FP MB A. Pezzolo. Analyzed the data: A. Pistorio A. Pezzolo FP MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC DP FV PB FD CG. Wrote the paper: VP A. Pezzolo.