Pichler, Theresia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5569-1249
Rohrmoser, Amy
Letsch, Anne
Westphalen, C. Benedikt
Keilholz, Ulrich
Heinemann, Volker
Lamping, Mario
Jost, Philipp J.
Riedmann, Kristina
Herschbach, Peter
Goerling, Ute
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität München
Article History
Received: 12 May 2020
Accepted: 19 August 2020
First Online: 3 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Outside of the submitted work, PD Dr. Letsch reports personal fees from Bristol Myers Squibb, MSD (Merck & Co), Bayer AG, AstraZeneca, Roche, Pfizer, Tesaro, Sanofi, Incyte, and Merck KGaA. Dr. Westphalen reports grants from Roche and personal fees and other from Bayer, Celgene, Ipsen, Rafael, RedHill, Roche, Servier, Shire/Baxalta, and Taiho, outside the submitted work. Prof. Keilholz reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Bayer, and Merck and personal fees from BMS, MSD, and Novartis, outside the submitted work. Prof. Dr. Heinemann reports grants, personal fees, and non-financial support from Merck, Amgen, Roche, and SIRTEX; grants and personal fees from Sanofi and Shire; personal fees and non-financial support from Servier and BMS; MSD grants from Pfizer, Celgene, and Boehringer-Ingelheim; personal fees from Halozyme and Pierre-Fabre; and non-financial support from Bayer, outside the submitted work. Prof. Dr. Jost has had a consulting or advisory role and received honoraria, research funding, and/or travel/accommodation expenses from AbbVie, BMS, Boehringer, Novartis, Pfizer, Servier, and Celgene, outside the submitted work. Dr. Riedmann reports personal fees from Bayer Vital GmbH, outside the submitted work. Dr. Goerling reports personal fees from German Cancer Aid, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, outside the submitted work. All the other authors disclose no potential conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Technical University of Munich (533/17 S), the Ethics Committee of the University of Munich (17-873), and the Ethics Committee of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (EA1/137/17). The study received positive data protection votes from the responsible committees (Munich: verification by data protection official; Berlin: 473/17/ST3).
: All patients completed an informed consent form.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Patients signed informed consent regarding publishing their data.