About the Authors
- Sonja Gillen
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Tibor Schuster
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Christian Meyer zum Büschenfelde
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Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Helmut Friess
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Jörg Kleeff
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* E-mail: kleeff@chir.med.tu-muenchen.de
Affiliations Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Department of Medicine, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SG TS CMzB HF JK. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: SG TS CMzB HF JK. Designed the experiments/the study: SG HF JK. Analyzed the data: SG TS CMzB JK. Collected data/did experiments for the study: SG CMzB JK. Wrote the first draft of the paper: SG JK. Contributed to the writing of the paper: SG TS CMzB HF JK.