Werner, Christoph http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7000-8118
Müller, Nicolle http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0303-7322
Müller, Ulrich Alfons http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8298-0465
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (-)
Article History
Received: 29 November 2018
Accepted: 2 February 2019
First Online: 15 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Investigations were substantially financed by Fresenius medical care GmbH, Germany. The sponsor had no influence on study design, data processing or manuscript editing. C.W. received travel funding by Novartis oncology. All authors declare not further conflicting interests.
: All investigations were approved by ethics-committee of the University of Jena (number of decision: 4916-09/16).
: All patients gave informed consent to laboratory investigations and data processing.