About the Authors

Sonja Andersen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonja Andersen, Cecilie Baar

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and European Palliative Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Cecilie Baar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonja Andersen, Cecilie Baar

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health and European Palliative Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Torill Fladvad

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health and European Palliative Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Eivor Alette Laugsand

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and European Palliative Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Frank Skorpen

frank.skorpen@ntnu.no

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health and European Palliative Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA CB TF FS. Performed the experiments: SA CB TF EAL. Analyzed the data: SA CB TF EAL FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS. Wrote the paper: SA CB FS. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: TF EAL.