Messerschmidt, Carl
Calvarese, Matteo
Vafaeinezhad, Mohammadsadegh
Ryabchykov, Oleg
Mühlig, Anna
Meyer-Zedler, Tobias
Schmitt, Michael
Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando
Bocklitz, Thomas
Popp, Jürgen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Article History
Received: 20 June 2025
Accepted: 13 October 2025
First Online: 23 October 2025
Change Date: 4 October 2025
Change Type: Update
Change Details: This article has been updated to correct the funding information.
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in the head and neck cancer study were conducted in line with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki by the World Medical Association. Ethical approval was granted from the ethics committee of the University Hospital Jena, Germany (No. 4291-12/14). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study of head and neck cancer patients.
: Patients signed informed consent regarding publishing data based on their head and neck cancer biopsy samples.
: Not applicable. The presented head and neck cancer study represents a pilot investigation involving ex vivo analysis of biopsy samples obtained during standard clinical care. As such, it did not constitute an interventional clinical trial and was therefore not subject to clinical trial registration.
: The authors declare no competing interests.