About the Authors

Elham Hedayati

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Elham.hedayati@ki.se

Affiliations Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Breast Cancer Flow, Patient Area of Breast Cancer Sarcoma and Endocrine Tumors, Theme Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Lionel Fracheboud

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Boston Consulting Group AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Vaidyanathan Srikant

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation The Boston Consulting Group AG, Zurich, Switzerland

David Greber

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Boston Consulting Group AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Susanne Wallberg

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Breast Cancer Flow, Patient Area of Breast Cancer Sarcoma and Endocrine Tumors, Theme Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Christina Linder Stragliotto

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Breast Cancer Flow, Patient Area of Breast Cancer Sarcoma and Endocrine Tumors, Theme Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The following authors: Lionel Fracheboud, Vaidyanathan Srikant and David Greber are affiliated to the Boston Consulting Group as paid employment. The funder Roche Sweden AB (http://www.roche.se/) provided support in the form of a research grant of 60,000:- Swedish Kr [to the Karolinska University Hospital; Elham Hedayati], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific role of the author is articulated in the 'author contributions' section. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.