About the Authors

Thaer S. A. Abdalla

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

t.abdalla@uke.de

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jan Meiners

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Sabine Riethdorf

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tumor Biology, University Cancer Center Hamburg, Center for Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Alexandra König

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Hospital Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Nathaniel Melling

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Tobias Gorges

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Tumor Biology, University Cancer Center Hamburg, Center for Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Karl-F. Karstens

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Jakob R. Izbicki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Klaus Pantel

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tumor Biology, University Cancer Center Hamburg, Center for Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Matthias Reeh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.