Wagner, Steffen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-1601
Prigge, Elena-Sophie
Wuerdemann, Nora http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1092-689X
Reder, Henrike http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5844-223X
Bushnak, Ayman
Sharma, Shachi Jenny http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-7936
Obermueller, Theresa
von Knebel Doeberitz, Magnus http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0498-6781
Dreyer, Thomas
Gattenlöhner, Stefan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-6777
Wolf, Gregor http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7828-9874
Pons-Kühnemann, Jörn http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8211-4399
Wittekindt, Claus http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1696-0199
Klussmann, Jens Peter http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8223-7954
Funding for this research was provided by:
MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH: Investigator Studies Program (MISP), grant number 56606.
Article History
Received: 2 March 2020
Revised: 27 May 2020
Accepted: 12 June 2020
First Online: 6 July 2020
Change Date: 10 June 2021
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01457-z
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the local ethics committee (Ethik-Kommission am Fachbereich Medizin, University of Giessen, reference numbers 151/11 and 296/11). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients, and tumour material was used in accordance with the local ethics committee.
: Not applicable.
: Data described in this study are available, upon request, from the corresponding author for academic research within the constraints of the consent given by the patients.
: Mv.K.D. was cofounder, shareholder and member of the supervisory board of mtm Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany. J.P.K. is the principal investigator of a MISP-funded project and received funding from MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH for this study. E.S.P. has received lecture fees from MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH. All remaining authors have declared no conflict of interest.
: This work was supported by the Investigator Studies Program (MISP) from MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH (grant number: 56606). MSD Sharp & Dohme GmbH was not involved in study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report and in the decision to submit the data for publication. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL