Ditsch, Nina
Heublein, Sabine
Jeschke, Udo
Sattler, Cornelia
Kuhn, Christina
Hester, Anna
Czogalla, Bastian
Trillsch, Fabian
Mahner, Sven
Engel, Jutta
Mayr, Doris
Schmoeckel, Elisa http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-3837
Article History
Received: 2 February 2020
Accepted: 1 May 2020
First Online: 12 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Sabine Heublein reports grants from FERRING, personal fees from Roche, other from Astra Zeneca, grants from Novartis Oncology, grants and non-financial support from Apceth GmbH, non-financial support from Addex. Fabian Trillsch declares Research support, advisory board, honoraria and travel expenses from AstraZeneca, Clovis, Medac, PharmaMar, Roche, Tesaro. Sven Mahner reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, personal fees from Clovis, grants and personal fees from Medac, grants and personal fees from MSD. He also reports personal fees from Novartis, grants and personal fees from PharmaMar, grants and personal fees from Roche, personal fees from Sensor Kinesis, grants and personal fees from Tesaro, grants and personal fees from Teva, outside the submitted work. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
: The Ethics Committee of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany (approval number 227–09) on 30 September 2009, approved the study. All tissue samples used for this study were obtained from leftover material from the archives of LMU Munich, Department Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, initially used for pathological diagnostics. When this retrospective study was initiated, diagnostic procedures had already been fully completed; the tissue samples were classified as leftover material and underwent irreversible anonymization. Under these circumstances, no individual written informed consent was needed as per declaration of the Ethics Committee of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. All experiments were performed according to the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki (1975).