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Article History

Received: 5 September 2024

Accepted: 19 December 2024

First Online: 16 January 2025

Change Date: 25 April 2025

Change Type: Update

Change Details: The original online version of this article was revised: author name, Harriet Wikman was incorrectly tagged. Harriet is the given name and Wikman is the last name.

Declarations

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: Patient blood samples were acquired in accordance to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki and the guidelines for experimentation with humans by the Chambers of Physicians of the State of Hamburg (“Hamburger Ärztekammer”). All participants gave written informed consent prior to blood donation (Ethics Nr. PV5119 and PV3548).

: Not applicable.

: CB has received honoraria outside of this work from med update, Merck Serono, Roche Pharma and fees for advisory role and/or speaker engagements from AOK Germany, Astra Zeneca, Bayer Healthcare, BioNTech, Lindis Biotech and Sanofi Aventis. CB holds leadership or advisory roles in the Hamburg Cancer Society, the German Cancer Society, the German Society for Haematology and Oncology, the National Network of German Cancer Centres, German Cancer Aid and is member of board of directors of the Northern German Society of Internal Medicine. Further authors declare no conflict of interest.