About the Authors

Florent Baty

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Paul Martin Putora

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Bruno Isenring

Affiliation Clinic of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Torsten Blum

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn, Berlin, Germany

Martin Brutsche

martin.brutsche@kssg.ch

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors received unconditional funding from Takeda Pharma AG, Switzerland. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB FB PMP. Analyzed the data: FB BI. Wrote the paper: FB MB TB.