About the Authors

Michael Anger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

michael.anger@kit.edu

Affiliation Section for Translational Medical Ethics, Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Immunity, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Wendelborn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section for Translational Medical Ethics, Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Immunity, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Schickhardt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section for Translational Medical Ethics, Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor Immunity, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors do not have any competing interests. This study is part of a research project which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and reports to the project execution organisation DLR Projektträger. Both organisations were part of our larger field of study (German funders) but had no influence on the design or content of this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.