Gupta, Rohini http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5302-5760
Dittmeier, Melanie
Wohlleben, Gisela
Nickl, Vera
Bischler, Thorsten http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9288-9481
Luzak, Vanessa
Wegat, Vanessa
Doll, Dennis
Sodmann, Annemarie
Bady, Elena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8586-5200
Langlhofer, Georg
Wachter, Britta
Havlicek, Steven
Gupta, Jahnve
Horn, Evi
Lüningschrör, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3883-6554
Villmann, Carmen
Polat, Bülent
Wischhusen, Jörg http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0390-4297
Monoranu, Camelia M.
Kuper, Jochen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7553-5825
Blum, Robert http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5270-3854
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project-ID: 194101929 (BL567/3-2), project ID: 326998133; CRC TRR225 (B01))
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (project Z-6, B-450)
Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
Article History
Received: 24 August 2023
Revised: 25 June 2024
Accepted: 11 July 2024
First Online: 22 July 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This research involved human subjects, human material, or human data and was in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Due to the retrospective nature of this study, we were not able to obtain written informed consent for the use of patients’ biopsy material and data for this study. Also, most of the patients had already died at the time of marker evaluation (see ref. <sup>69</sup>). In accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the use of the biopsy samples was done after consideration and approval by our institutional ethics committee of the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany, registration number: #103/14.