About the Authors

Alessandra Ciucci

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Daniela Meco

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Ilaria De Stefano

Affiliation Department of Radiation Physics, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

Daniele Travaglia

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Gian Franco Zannoni

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Scambia

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Riccardo Riccardi

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Oncology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Anna Saran

Affiliation Laboratory of Radiation Biology and Biomedicine, Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), CR-Casaccia, Rome, Italy

Mariateresa Mancuso

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariateresa Mancuso, Daniela Gallo

Affiliation Laboratory of Radiation Biology and Biomedicine, Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), CR-Casaccia, Rome, Italy

Daniela Gallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariateresa Mancuso, Daniela Gallo

d.gallo@rm.unicatt.it

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG MM GS RR. Performed the experiments: AC DM IDS DT. Analyzed the data: DG AC GFZ. Wrote the paper: DG MM AS AC.