About the Authors

Sigrid Hatse

sigrid.hatse@med.kuleuven.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Barbara Brouwers

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Bruna Dalmasso

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Internal Medicine, Istituto di Ricerca a Carattere Clinico e Scientifico (IRCCS), Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria (AOU) San Martino Istituto Nazionale Tumori (IST), Genoa, Italy

Annouschka Laenen

Affiliation Interuniversity Centre for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Leuven, Belgium

Cindy Kenis

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Patrick Schöffski

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Hans Wildiers

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Oncology (LEO), Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, and Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH BB CK HW. Performed the experiments: SH. Analyzed the data: SH BD AL PS HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH BB CK AL. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SH BB BD AL CK PS HW.