About the Authors

Aino Salmiheimo

aino.koski@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Harri Mustonen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Ulf-Håkan Stenman

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Pauli Puolakkainen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Esko Kemppainen

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Hanna Seppänen

‡ These authors share last authorship.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Caj Haglund

‡ These authors share last authorship.

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Research Programs Unit, Translational Cancer Biology Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HS CH AS. Data curation: AS HS CH. Formal analysis: AS HM UHS. Funding acquisition: HS CH EK PP AS. Investigation: AS HS. Methodology: HS CH HM UHS AS. Project administration: HS CH PP EK. Resources: CH PP EK. Supervision: HS CH HM PP EK. Validation: HS CH PP HM. Visualization: AS. Writing – original draft: AS. Writing – review & editing: HS CH HM UHS PP AS