Stolzenbach, Lara Franziska http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2747-4153
Deuker, Marina
Collà-Ruvolo, Claudia
Nocera, Luigi
Tian, Zhe
Maurer, Tobias
Tilki, Derya
Briganti, Alberto
Saad, Fred
Mirone, Vincenzo
Chun, Felix K. H.
Graefen, Markus
Karakiewicz, Pierre I.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Article History
Received: 17 July 2020
Accepted: 3 October 2020
First Online: 5 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors meet the ICMJE requirements. This manuscript is in full compliance with the requirements of the journal. All authors of this research paper have directly participated in the planning, execution, or analysis of the study. In addition, they have read and approved the final version submitted. The contents of this manuscript have not been copyrighted or published previously and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. They will not be copyrighted, submitted, or published elsewhere while acceptance by the Journal is under consideration. There are no directly related manuscripts or abstracts, published or unpublished, by any authors of this paper. Our research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Each of the coauthors and myself have nothing to disclose. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All analyses and their reporting followed the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (SEER) reporting guidelines. Due to the anonymously coded design of the SEER database, study-specific Institutional Review Board (IRB) ethics approval was not required.
: Not applicable to the SEER database.