Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
30
December
2016
Publication date Collection: 2016
Volume: 11
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0169174
Affiliations
[1
]Cancer Epidemiology Unit-CeRMS, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin
and CPO Piedmont, Turin, Italy
[2
]Medical Oncology Division 1, University Hospital “Città della Salute e della Scienza”,
Turin, Italy
[3
]Department of Cancer Screening and Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, WHO Collaborative
Center for Cancer Early Diagnosis and Screening, CPO Piedmont and University Hospital
“Città della Salute e della Scienza”, Turin, Italy
Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Conceptualization: LR FM AGT.
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Formal analysis: CG NRR DZ.
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Funding acquisition: LR NRR FM.
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Investigation: LR CG NRR.
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Methodology: LR CG AGT DZ NS FM VF.
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Project administration: LR.
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Writing – original draft: LR CG.
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Writing – review & editing: LR CG DZ MM AGT VF FM LC PL NS.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-16-29336
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169174
PMC ID: 5201268
PubMed ID: 28036409
SO-VID: 12949e19-cff5-4481-aa9c-b93d367bc052
Copyright © © 2016 Grasso et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: Piedmont region
Funded by: ERACOL project
Award Recipient
:
Nena Robles Rodriguez
This work was partially supported by the Piedmont Region (
www.regione.piemonte.it/). NRR was funded by a scolarship Erasmus Columbus project for academic mobility scholarships
in the thematic fields related to health and public health (ERACOL) (
http://nihes.com/eracol). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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