Berg, Victoria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-7412
Lollies, Anna
Schneider, Markus https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6634-4306
Johansson, Patricia
Weniger, Marc A.
Albertini, Emma
Facchetti, Fabio
Ascani, Stefano
Moawia, Abubakar
Bens, Susanne https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5263-495X
Fischer, Anja https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-2544
Siebert, Reiner https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7433-3703
Klapper, Wolfram https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7208-4117
Lorenzi, Luisa
Tiacci, Enrico https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8055-0931
Hartmann, Sylvia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3424-1091
Budeus, Bettina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9313-8636
Hansmann, Martin-Leo
Küppers, Ralf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6691-7191
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Krebshilfe (70112112)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1530, C01)
Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC IG 2019-23732, AIRC IG 2019-23732)
Fondazione Beretta
Article History
Received: 11 November 2024
Revised: 27 January 2025
Accepted: 21 February 2025
First Online: 22 May 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees and with the ethical standards as laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki, and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. The study was approved by the local ethics committees of the University Hospitals of Frankfurt/Main (8/15) and Essen (15-6185-BO). The biopsy samples were obtained with informed consent by the patients, or they were derived from deceased patients, with allowance by the ethics committee to use them in anonymized form.