About the Authors
- Bruno Christian Koehler
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* E-mail: bruno.koehler@nct-heidelberg.de
Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Anna-Lena Scherr
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Stephan Lorenz
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Toni Urbanik
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Nicole Kautz
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Christin Elssner
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Stefan Welte
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Justo Lorenzo Bermejo
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Dirk Jäger
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Henning Schulze-Bergkamen
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Affiliation National Center for Tumor Diseases, Department of Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine VI, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Competing Interests
Henning Schulze-Bergkamen received research grants as well as reimbursement of conference travel costs and honoraria from Merck Serono GmbH. None of the authors is related to Merck Serono by employment, consultancy, patents and products in development or market products. No product of Merck Serono has been used or investigated in the manuscript. Merck Serono GmbH was not involved in the experiments or preparation of the manuscript. 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: BCK ALS SL TU NK HSB. Performed the experiments: BCK ALS SL CE NK. Analyzed the data: BCK ALS TU JLB DJ HSB. Wrote the paper: BCK ALS TU DJ HSB SW.