Amitay, Efrat L. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8585-7622
Carr, Prudence R.
Jansen, Lina
Roth, Wilfried
Alwers, Elizabeth
Herpel, Esther
Kloor, Matthias
Bläker, Hendrik
Chang-Claude, Jenny
Brenner, Hermann
Hoffmeister, Michael
Article History
Received: 28 November 2019
Revised: 24 February 2020
Accepted: 4 March 2020
First Online: 30 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The DACHS study was approved by the ethics committees of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and the state medical boards of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Written informed consent for study participation and publication of results based on aggregated data was obtained from all participants. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The data used in the current analyses are not publicly available due to legal privacy restrictions.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This work was supported by the German Research Council (BR 1704/6-1, BR 1704/6-3, BR 1704/6-4, BR 1704/6-6, CH 117/1-1, HO 5117/2-1, HE 5998/2-1, KL 2354/3-1, RO 2270/8-1 and BR 1704/17-1); The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01KH0404, 01ER0814, 01ER0815, 01ER1505A and 01ER1505B); The Interdisciplinary Research Programme of the National Centre for Tumour Diseases (NCT), Germany. Open access funding provided by Projekt DEAL.