About the Authors

Ondrej Majek

Affiliations Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Adam Gondos

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Lina Jansen

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Katharina Emrich

Affiliation Cancer Registry of Rhineland-Palatinate, Institute for Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Bernd Holleczek

Affiliation Saarland Cancer Registry, Saarbrücken, Germany

Alexander Katalinic

Affiliation Cancer Registry of Schleswig-Holstein, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Alice Nennecke

Affiliation Hamburg Cancer Registry, Ministry for Health and Consumer Protection, Hamburg, Germany

Andrea Eberle

Affiliation Cancer Registry of Bremen, Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany

Hermann Brenner

h.brenner@dkfz.de

Affiliation Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

the GEKID Cancer Survival Working Group

Membership of the GEKID Cancer Survival Working Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB OM AG LJ. Analyzed the data: OM AG LJ HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KE BH AK AN AE GEKIDCSWG. Wrote the paper: OM HB LJ AG.