Giorgina Specchia, MD1, Patrizia Pregno2*, Massimo Breccia, MD3*, Chiara Monagheddu4*, Fausto Castagnetti, MD, PhD5,6, Massimiliano Bonifacio, MD7*, Mario Tiribelli, MD8*, Fabio Stagno, MD, PhD9, Giovanni Caocci, MD10, Bruno Martino, MD11*, Luigiana Luciano, MD12, Michele Pizzuti, MD13*, Antonella Gozzini, MD14*, Anna Rita Scortechini, MD15*, Francesco Albano16*, Micaela Bergamaschi, MD17*, Isabella Capodanno, MD18*, Andrea Patriarca, MD19*, Carmen Fava20, Giovanna Rege Cambrin, MD, PhD21*, Federica Sorà, MD22*, Sara Galimberti, MD, PhD23*, Monica Bocchia24*, Gianni Binotto, MD25*, Giovanni Reddiconto26*, Attilio Guarini, MD27*, Alessandro Maggi28*, Grazia Sanpaolo, MD29*, Maria Stella De Candia30*, Valentina Giai, MD, PhD31, Elisabetta Abruzzese, MD 32, Maria Cristina Miggiano, MD33*, Franca Falzetti, MD34*, Gaetano La Barba35*, Giuseppe Pietrantuono36*, Anna Guella, MD37*, Luciano Levato, MD38*, Olga Mulas39*, Fabio Saccona40*, Gianantonio Rosti, MD41*, Pellegrino Musto, MD42, Francesco Di Raimondo, MD43, Fabrizio Pane, MD44, Robin Foà, MD45, Michele Baccarani, MD46, Giovannino Ciccone4* and Giuseppe Saglio, MD, PhD47
1Hematology Section, Department of Emergency and Transplantation - GIMEMA WP CML, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
2Hematology Unit, Az Ospedaliero Universitaria Città' della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy
3Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
4Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and CPO, Città della Salute Hospital and University, Torino, Italy
5Institute of Hematology "L. e A. Seràgnoli", University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
6Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, "S. Orsola-Malpighi" Hospital, Bologna, Italy
7Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
8Division of Hematology and BMT, Department of Medical Area, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
9Chair and Hematology Section, Ferrarotto Hospital, Catania, Italy
10Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Businco Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
11Hematology Unit, A.O. Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy
12Hematology Unit, Federico II University of Naples, Napoli, Italy
13Ematologia, Azieda Ospedaliera S. Carlo, Potenza, Italy
14Hematology Unit, AOU Careggi, University of Florence, Florence, ITA
15Division of Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy
16University of Bari, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (D.E.T.O.), Hematology Section, Bari, Italy
17Clinical Hematology Unit, IRCCS AOU S.Martino-IST, Genova, Italy
18Hematology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
19Division of Hematology, Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
20Hematology Division, Ospedale Mauriziano, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
21Division of Internal Medicine - Hematology, AUO San Luigi, Orbassano, Italy
22Institute of Hematology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Policlinico A. Gemelli, ROMA, Italy
23Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Hematology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
24Hematology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
25Department of Medicine, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
26U.O.Hematology Hospital V.Fazzi - Lecce Italy, Lecce, Italy
27Haematology Unit, Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale Oncologico, Bari, Italy
28Hematology, " Giuseppe Moscati" Hospital, Taranto, Italy
29Division of Hematology, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
30Hematology Unit, Ospedale Perrino, Brindisi, Italy
31Università Degli Studi Di Torino, Turin, Turin, Italy
32Hemoglobinopathies Unit, Hematology Department, S. Eugenio Hospital (ASL Roma 2), Tor Vergata University, Rome Italy, Rome, Italy
33Hematology Department, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
34Institute of Hematology, Centro di Ricerche Emato-Oncologiche (CREO), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
35Department of Hematology, "Spirito Santo" Hospital, Pescara, ITA
36IRCCS Centro Oncologico Della Basilicata, Rionero In Vulture, ITA
37Ematology section, Ematology section,U.O. Medicina II,Ospedale Santa Chiara, trento, Italy
38Hematology Unit, A. Pugliese Hospital, Azienda Ospedaliera Pugliese Ciaccio, Catanzaro, Italy
39Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
40SCDU Epidemiologia dei Tumori-CPO Piemonte, Az Osp Citta della salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy
41Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine - DIMES, Institute of Hematology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
42Hematology and Stem cell Transplantation Unit - Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation (D.E.T.O.) - University of Bari, Bari, Italy
43Division of Hematology, A.O.U. "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele", University of Catania, Catania, Italy
44Federico II University of Naples, Hematology Department, Naples, Italy
45Hematology, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy
46Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna-GIMEMA WP CML, Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology "L. & A. Seràgnoli", Bologna, Italy
47Divisione Universitaria di Ematologia e Terapie Cellulari, A.O. Ordine Mauriziano, Turin, Italy