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Article History

Received: 11 July 2022

Accepted: 9 May 2023

First Online: 24 May 2023

Declarations

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: The research project is not subject to review by the Ethics Committee and has been deemed as ethically unobjectionable by the Joint Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Gutenberg School of Management & Economics of the Faculty of Law, Management and Economics of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Consent to participate is based on the German Cancer Early Detection and Registry Act (Krebsfrüherkennungs- und -registergesetz, §65c Sozialgesetzbuch V) and its regional implementation (Landeskrebsregistergesetz). Administrative approval for access to anonymized patient data was granted by the Cancer Registry Rhineland-Palatinate (Krebsregister Rheinland-Pfalz gGmbH).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.