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Accepted: 13 October 2024

First Online: 1 November 2024

Declarations

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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was supported by a HOMFOR (Homburger Forschungsförderungsprogramm) grant to ML. We acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and Saarland University within the Open Access Publication Funding program.

: The authors ML, SW, FLB, SK, LAB, MK, GGK, MW, LGTM, and JPK have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

: This study was approved by the Saarland Medical Association ethics review committee (index number 218-10). All experiments were performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: All patients included in this study gave their informed consent for the scientific use of their tissue and clinical data.

: The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author.

: Not applicable.

: M.L., L.G.T.M., and J.P.K. conceptualized the study; S.W., F.L.B., S.K., L.A.B., M.K., G.G.K., and M.W. carried out the formal analysis and investigation; M.L., S.W., L.G.T.M., and J.P.K. carried out writing—original draft preparation; All authors contributed to writing—review and editing; M.L. carried out funding acquisition; S.W. and S.K. acquired the resources; M.L., L.G.T.M., M.W., and J.P.K. supervised the study.