About the Authors

Josephine T. Tauer

JosephineTabea.Tauer@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Lorenz C. Hofbauer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Roland Jung

Affiliation Experimental Center of the Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Sebastian Gerdes

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Ingmar Glauche

Affiliation Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Reinhold G. Erben

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Meinolf Suttorp

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

“Sonnenstrahl e.V.” is a laymen organization for the promotion of health issues and research in children with cancer. Therefore, this organization has neither influenced nor exerted competing interests of any kind. Therefore, this support does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTT MS. Performed the experiments: JTT. Analyzed the data: JTT LCH RGE MS SG IG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCH RGE SG IG. Wrote the paper: JTT MS.