1 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
2 Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
3 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
4 Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States.
5 Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States.
6 Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
7 Department of Applied Clinical Sciences and Biotechnology, L'Aquila University, L'Aquila, Italy.