Kästner, Anika
Hoffmann, Wolfgang
Hüsing, Johannes
Stang, Andreas
Hüsing, Anika
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
Article History
Received: 30 October 2025
Accepted: 29 January 2026
First Online: 6 February 2026
Declarations
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: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Medicine Greifswald (BB 090/24). The study was conducted in accordance the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.The legal basis for the use of cancer registry data for research purposes was the respective cancer registration act of North Rhine-Westphalia. No individual informed consent was required, as data processing and secondary use of pseudonymized data for scientific research are explicitly permitted under this law. The data were provided after approval of a data access request in accordance with the applicable use and access regulations.