Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Article History
Received: 26 November 2025
Accepted: 4 August 2026
First Online: 7 August 2026
Change Date: 30 September 2026
Change Type: Update
Change Details: The original article has been updated: Figure 2 has been updated to correct set four survival curves.
Change Date: 6 October 2026
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-026-02199-x
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All patients gave written informed consent to the retrospective analysis of clinical data. The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The ethics committee of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany approved the study protocol (application No. 23–1276-S1-retro).
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.