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Received: 10 September 2019

Accepted: 9 November 2019

First Online: 27 November 2019

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: In relation to this presentation, we declare the following, real or perceived conflicts of interest: M. van den Bent has received grants from Abbvie, and honoraria from Cellgene, BMS, Boehringer, AGIOS and VaXIMM. A. Azaro has received consulting fees from Orion Pharmaceuticals and Amcure GmbH. F. De Vos has received financial support for conducting clinical trials from Novartis, BMS, AbbVie and Bioclin. J.M. Sepulveda has received consulting fees from Celgene, Pfizer and Abbvie; he has received research grants from Pfizer and Catalysis. W.K.A. Yung holds stocks in DNATrix; he has received honoraria from DNATrix and Boehringer Ingelheim; he holds patents, royalties and/or intellectual property in, and has participated in a consulting or advisory role for DNATrix; he has received travel and/or accommodation expenses from Boehringer Ingelheim. P. Wen has received grants/research support from Lilly USA, Agios, AstraZeneca, Beigene, Eli Lily, Immunocellular Therapeutics, Kazai, Kadmon, Karyopharm, Merck, Novartis, Oncoceutics, Vascular Biogenics and Vaccines; he has received speaker’s bureau fees from Merck; he has received consultant/advisory board fees from Genentech/Roche, Taiho Oncology, Novartis, Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc, Merck, Puma, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, GW Pharmaceuticals, Immunomic Therapeutics, Kadmon, Vascular Biogenics, Ziopharm, Monteris and Tocagen. A. Lassman reports grants and non-financial support from Novartis, during the conduct of the study; personal fees and non-financial support from Orbus, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Karyopharm, personal fees and non-financial support from NW Biotherapeutics, grants and non-financial support from Oncoceutics, personal fees and non-financial support from Agios, personal fees and non-financial support from Celgene, personal fees and non-financial support from Novocure, non-financial support from Tocagen, non-financial support from BMS, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Kadmon, grants and non-financial support from Genentech/Roche, grants and non-financial support from Amgen, grants and non-financial support from Millenium, non-financial support from Celldex, grants and non-financial support from Pfizer, non-financial support from Keryx/Aeterna Zentaris, grants and non-financial support from VBI Vaccines, grants and non-financial support from Beigene, personal fees from Bioclinica as an expert blinded independent reviewer of clinical and imaging data for a BMS-sponsored trial, personal fees from prIME Oncology, personal fees and non-financial support from Sapience, personal fees from WebMD, personal fees and non-financial support from Physicians' Education Resource, personal fees from Cortice, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from AbbVie, personal fees and non-financial support from Forma, personal fees and non-financial support from Bayer, grants and non-financial support from Global Coalition for Adaptive Research, personal fees and non-financial support from American Society of Clinical Oncology, grants and non-financial support from QED, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from NCI, non-financial support from New York University, grants and non-financial support from NRG Oncology/RTOG-Foundations, grants from UCLA, grants from Northwestern University, grants from James S. McDonnell Foundation, non-financial support from Yale University, non-financial support from Radiological Society of North America, non-financial support from FDA, personal fees from Italian Foundation for Cancer Research, personal fees and non-financial support from Abbott Molecular, and personal fees from Elsevier, outside the submitted work M. Joerger has received grants from BMS and AstraZeneca. G. Tabatabai has served on Advisory Boards for AbbVie and BMS, has received research/travel grants from Medac, Novocure and Roche Diagnostics, and has received speaker`s fees from Meda and Novocure. J. Rodon reports non-financial support and reasonable reimbursement for travel from European Journal of Cancer, Vall d'Hebron Institut of Oncology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, SOLTI, Elsevier, GlaxoSmithKline; receiving consulting and travel fees from Novartis, Eli Lilly, Orion Pharmaceuticals, Servier Pharmaceuticals, Peptomyc, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Kelun Pharmaceutical/Klus Pharma, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc, Pfizer, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Ellipses Pharma (including serving on the scientific advisory board from 2015-present), receiving research funding from Bayer and Novartis, and serving as investigator in clinical trials with Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Tocagen, Symphogen, BioAtla, Pfizer, GenMab, CytomX, Kelun-Biotech, Takeda-Millenium, GlaxoSmithKline, IPSEN and travel fees from ESMO, US Department of Defense, Louissiana State University, Hunstman Cancer Institute, Cancer Core Europe, Karolinska Cancer Institute and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC). R. Tiedt, T. Kirsilae and S. Vicente are employees of Novartis Pharma AG. S. Zhao is an employee of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (China). A. Balbin is an employee of Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (US). H. Zhang is an employee of Novartis and holds shares with Novartis. W. Wick receives study support to the institution from Apogenix, Pfizer and Roche.

: The study protocol and all amendments were reviewed by the Independent Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board for each center. 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.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants or appropriate surrogates included in the study. Additional information on the study was provided verbally by the study investigator or in a written format.