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Received: 12 December 2017

Accepted: 1 March 2018

First Online: 15 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was conducted in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonization guidelines for Good Clinical Practice. The clinical study protocol was approved by the MDACC Institutional Review Board and for the BAT group by the University of Frankfurt Ethics Committee (UCT project number SHN-07-2016). Details of the INCB18424-251 study design (identifier NCT00509899) have been previously published []. All patients provided written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki prior to study participation.

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: H.M.K. reports receiving consulting or advisory fees from Incyte Corporation, AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis; honoraria from Incyte Corporation and Novartis; research funding from AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals and Novartis; and other remunerations from Incyte Corporation and Novartis. J.T. reports receiving consulting or advisory fees from Incyte Corporation, AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, and Sanofi; honoraria from Incyte Corporation, Novartis, and Sanofi; research funding from Incyte Corporation, AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, and Shire; and other remunerations from Incyte Corporation, Novartis, and Sanofi. C.E.B-R reports receiving consulting or advisory fees from Incyte Corporation and honoraria from Novartis. W.S. is an employee of and holds stock in Incyte Corporation. J.C. reports receiving consulting or advisory fees from Incyte Corporation and Sanofi and receiving research funding from Incyte Corporation and Sanofi. H.M.K. reports receiving research funding from ARIAD, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, and Pfizer. S.V. reports receiving research funding from Incyte Corporation, AstraZeneca, Lilly Oncology, Geron, NS Pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Celgene, Gilead, Seattle Genetics, Promedior, and Cell Therapeutics, Inc.

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