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Authors
Schindler, Christian J. A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6173-9875
Wittenberg, Ian
Damm, Oliver https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0261-3655
Kramer, Rolf
Mikolajczyk, Rafael https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1271-7204
Schönfelder, Tonio https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6158-4191
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland
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Article History
Received: 18 July 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 19 September 2024
Declarations
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: Christian J. A. Schindler and Tonio Schönfelder declare no conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article; they are employees of WIG2 GmbH. Ian Wittenberg and Rafael Mikolajczyk declare no conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article; Rafael Mikolajczyk is an employee of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Ian Wittenberg was an employee of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg at the time of the study and is now an employee of the Clinical Cancer Registry Saxony-Anhalt, Doctor-Eisenbart-Ring 2, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany. Oliver Damm and Rolf Kramer are employees of Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH.
: No formal ethical approval was required as no primary collection of individual human data occurred, and only anonymized healthcare data were used. The used data from the RKI and Destatis are openly available, while the data from the FDZ required a permission. No patient consent was necessary as no primary collection of individual human data occurred and only anonymized healthcare data were used.
: Apart from data mentioned in the data availability statement, no further third-party content was used, therefore permission was only needed for the FDZ. All quotations are provided with a reference.
