Lang, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3098-1554
Huemer, Florian
Rinnerthaler, Gabriel
Horner, Andreas
Wass, Romana
Brehm, Elmar
Akbari, Kaveh
Granitz, Marcel
Hutarew, Georg
Kaiser, Bernhard
Greil, Richard
Lamprecht, Bernd
Article History
First Online: 25 October 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and in an entirely retrospective fashion. There was no experimental approach, no additional patient contact, and only patient data assessed in clinical routine were analyzed. Thus, in line with the institutional guidelines, the local ethics committee was not concerned with this study and no written informed consent was obtained from the patients. Patient data were collected in an anonymized fashion and securely electronically stored in a way that only the authors had access to the data. No identifiable patient data have or will ever be published by the authors.
: No external funding was used in the preparation of this article.
: DL has received travel/accommodation funding from Roche and Merck Sharp & Dohme. FH has received travel/accommodation funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, and Merck Sharp & Dohme. GR has served as consultant/advisor to Roche, has received speakers’ honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche, and has received travel/accommodation and research funding from Roche. AH has received travel/accommodation funding from Roche. RW has received speakers’ honoraria and travel/accommodation funding from and served as consultant/advisor to Roche, Merck Sharp & Dohme and Bristol-Myers Squibb. EB has received speakers’ honoraria from and served as consultant/advisor to Roche, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Bristol-Myers Squibb; he has received travel/accommodation funding from Roche and Merck Sharp & Dohme. GH has served as consultant/advisor to Roche, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. RG has received speakers’ honoraria and research funding from Roche, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, he has served as consultant/advisor to Roche and Bristol-Myers Squibb, and has received travel/accommodation funding from Roche. BL has received speakers’ honoraria from and has served as consultant/advisor to Roche, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. KA, MG, and BK declare that they have no conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.
: The datasets analyzed during the current study cannot be made publicly available, as they contain possibly identifiable patient data.