Stein, Alexander
Atanackovic, Djordje
Hildebrandt, Bert
Stübs, Patrick
Brugger, Wolfram
Hapke, Gunnar
Steffens, Claus-Christoph
Illerhaus, Gerald
Bluemner, Ernst
Stöhlmacher, Jan
Bokemeyer, Carsten
Article History
Received: 12 April 2015
Revised: 2 July 2015
Accepted: 27 July 2015
First Online: 3 September 2015
Competing interests
: AS has received honoraria from Roche, Sanofi, Bayer, Amgen and Merck Serono and research funding from Roche and Sanofi. CB has received honoraria from Merck Serono, Roche, Sanofi and Bayer and research funding from Roche and Merck Serono. EB is an employee of Ecron Acunova, the contract research organisation that was in charge of analysing the study results. JS has received honoraria by Roche, Sanofi, Lilly, Amgen, Bayer, Merck-Serono, Pfizer and Abbott and research funding from Lilly, Roche and Amgen. CCS has received honoraria from Roche, Amgen and Sanofi. BH has received honoraria from Amgen, Bayer, Merck Serono, Roche and Sanofi and research funding from Roche. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.