Finkelmeier, Fabian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-9910
Czauderna, Carolin
Perkhofer, Lukas
Ettrich, Thomas J.
Trojan, Jörg
Weinmann, Arndt
Marquardt, Jens U.
Vermehren, Johannes
Waidmann, Oliver
Article History
Received: 31 August 2018
Accepted: 24 October 2018
First Online: 29 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Fabian Finkelmeier received travel grants from AbbVie outside the submitted work. Carolin Czauderna has nothing to report. Lukas Perkhofer received travel grants from Ipsen, Bayer, Sanofi, Novartis outside the submitted work. Thomas J. Ettrich received travel grants from Ipsen outside the submitted work. He acted as consultant for Bayer, BMS, Sanofi, Merck Serono, Roche and Pfizer outside the submitted work. He received lecture fees from Merck Serono, Sanofi, Celgene. One of his research projects is supported by Shire. Jörg Trojan reports personal fees from Amgen, Bayer Healthcare, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Daichi Sankyo, Eisai, Ipsen, Merck Serono, Merck Sharp & Dome, Lilly ImClone, Roche, Shire and research grants from Roche. Arndt Weinmann has nothing to report. Jens Marquardt received honoraria from Roche and Bayer outside the submitted work. Johannes Vermehren reports personal fees from AbbVie, Gilead and MSD outside the submitted work. Oliver Waidmann received travel grants from Abbvie, Bayer, BMS, Gilead, Ipsen, Medac, Novartis, and Servier outside the submitted work. He acted as consultant for Amgen, Bayer, BMS, Celgene, Eisai, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Servier, Shire outside the submitted work. He received lecture fees from Bayer, BMS, Celgene, Ipsen, Novartis, Roche, and Shire.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards (approval numbers: Mainz 837.199.10(7208), Frankfurt SGI-11-2017, Ulm 317/12, 230/14, 128/15).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.