Roth, Rebecca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2841-4921
Dieng, Sebastian
Oesterle, Alisa
Feick, Günter
Carl, Günther
Hinkel, Andreas
Steiner, Thomas
Kaftan, Björn Theodor
Kunath, Frank
Hadaschik, Boris
Oostdam, Simba-Joshua
Palisaar, Rein Jüri
Koralewski, Mateusz
Beyer, Burkhard http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4077-3708
Haben, Björn
Tsaur, Igor
Wesselmann, Simone
Kowalski, Christoph
Article History
Received: 13 May 2019
Accepted: 19 January 2020
First Online: 10 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: RR, GF, GC, AH, TS, BB, BHab, FK, SJO, MK, RJP, and IT declare that they have no conflicts of interest. CK, SD, AO, and SW are employed by the two institutions in charge of the certification system. BTK receives consulting and lecturing honoraries from various companies that are not in conflict with the work presented here. A comprehensive list will be provided upon demand. BHad reports grants from German Cancer Aid, and German Research Foundation, personal fees and non-financial support from Astellas, Astra Zeneca, Bayer, BMS, Janssen, Lightpoint Medical, and Sanofi, and grants and personal fees from Uromed, all unconnected with the submitted study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of Berlin (Eth-12/16) and in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and later amendments.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.