About the Authors

Yvonne Dzierma

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Dzierma, Frank G. Nuesken

yvonne.dzierma@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Frank G. Nuesken

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Dzierma, Frank G. Nuesken

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Jochen Fleckenstein

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Stephanie Kremp

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Norbert P. Licht

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Christian Ruebe

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD FN. Performed the experiments: YD FN. Analyzed the data: YD FN JF SK NL CR. Wrote the paper: YD FN JF SK NL CR.