Tsagkas, Charidimos
Altermatt, Anna
Bonati, Ulrike
Pezold, Simon
Reinhard, Julia
Amann, Michael
Cattin, Philippe
Wuerfel, Jens
Fischer, Dirk
Parmar, Katrin
Fischmann, Arne
Funding for this research was provided by:
F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Baasch Medicus Foundation Switzerland
Article History
Received: 29 June 2017
Revised: 28 February 2018
Accepted: 16 March 2018
First Online: 30 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is PD Dr. Katrin Parmar.
: C.T., A.A., U.B., S.P., J.R., M.A., P.C. and D.F. declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.J.W. is CEO of MIAC AG Basel. Unrelated to this work he received grants from the German Ministry of Science (BMBF), the German Ministery of Economy (BMWI), the EU (Horizon2020) and compensation for talks and advisory boards from Actelion, Bayer, Biogen, Genzyme, Novartis, Roche.K.P. received travel support from Novartis Switzerland unrelated to this work.A.F. reports travel support from Bracco Switzerland unrelated to this work.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• method validation• performed at one institution