About the Authors

Alexander Laemmle

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Antje Lechleiter

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Vincent Roh

Current address: Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrew's Place, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Christa Schwarz

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Simone Portmann

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Cynthia Furer

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Adrian Keogh

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Mario P. Tschan

Affiliation Medical Oncology/Hematology, Department of Clinical Research, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Candinas

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Stephan A. Vorburger

Current address: Department of Surgery, Regionalspital Emmental AG, Burgdorf, Switzerland

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Deborah Stroka

deborah.stroka@dkf.unibe.ch

Affiliation Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Laemmle A. Lechleiter MPT DC SAV DS. Performed the experiments: A. Laemmle A. Lechleiter VR CS SP CF DS. Analyzed the data: A. Laemmle DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK MPT. Wrote the paper: A. Laemmle DS.