Alabi, Rasheed Omobolaji
Bazina, Mahmoud
Guntinas-Lichius, Orlando
Elmusrati, Mohammed
Almangush, Alhadi
Tiblom Ehrsson, Ylva
Laurell, Göran
Mäkitie, Antti A.
Article History
Received: 14 January 2026
Accepted: 26 May 2026
First Online: 16 June 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Informed consent for the data used in this study: The Ethics Committee of the Jena University Hospital approved the study (IRB No. 3204-07/11) with a waived requirement for informed consent since the study had a non-interventional retrospective design and all data were analysed anonymously. For Helsinki data, the study permission was granted by the Research Administration of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS/307/2019). The SEER data is a public data with informed consent obtained for all the patients as stated by the National Health Institute (NIH). The ethical permission to use SEER data was granted to the first author.