About the Authors

Lamiaa Hassan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Daniel Medenwald

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Halle, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Daniel Tiller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Alexander Kluttig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Beatrice Ludwig-Kraus

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Laboratory, University Hospital Halle, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Frank Bernhard Kraus

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Laboratory, University Hospital Halle, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Karin H. Greiser

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation German Cancer Research Centre, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Rafael Mikolajczyk

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rafael.mikolajczyk@medizin.uni-halle.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics, Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.