Harke, Nina Natascha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-7101
Wagner, Christian
Liakos, Nikolaos
Urbanova, Katarina
Addali, Mustapha
Hadaschik, Boris A.
Witt, Jorn H.
Article History
Received: 10 November 2019
Accepted: 24 April 2020
First Online: 2 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Nina N. Harke: personal fees and non-financial support from Bayer, personal fees and non-financial support from Novartis, personal fees and non-financial support from Lightpoint Medical, personal fees and non-financial support from Boston Scientific; all outside the submitted work. Christian Wagner: Proctor for Intuitive Surgical. Boris Hadaschik: German Cancer Aid, grants from German Research Foundation, grants from Profound Medical, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Janssen, personal fees and non-financial support from Astellas, personal fees and non-financial support from Bayer, personal fees and non-financial support from BMS, personal fees and non-financial support from Lightpoint Medical, personal fees and non-financial support from Astra Zeneca, personal fees and non-financial support from Sanofi, grants and personal fees from Uromed; all outside the submitted work. Jorn H. Witt: Proctor for Intuitive Surgical, personal fees and non-financial support from BK Ultrasound, personal fees and non-financial support from Braun, personal fees and non-financial support from Applied, personal fees and non-financial support from Ethicon, personal fees and non-financial support from Lohmann&Rauscher, personal fees and non-financial support from Olympus, personal fees and non-financial support from TapMed, personal fees and non-financial support from Teleflex, personal fees and non-financial support from Mimic, personal fees and non-financial support from IFM, personal fees and non-financial support from Orpheus Medical, personal fees and non-financial support from Stryker, personal fees and non-financial support from Uromed, personal fees and non-financial support from Boston Scientific, personal fees and non-financial support from Bard; all outside the submitted work. Nikolaos Liakos, Katarina Urbanova, and Mustapha Addali do not have any conflicts of interests.
: All procedures in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.