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Article History

Received: 20 July 2019

Accepted: 30 October 2019

First Online: 13 November 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was approved by the institutional review board of the medical faculty of the Munich University Hospital (approval number 413–16 UE) and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration in its current version.

: Not applicable.

: Teresa Amaral: grants from Neracare; travel support from Novartis, personal fees and travel support from BMS, outside the submitted work; Carola Berking: speaker’s honoraria from BMS, Immunocore, MSD, Novartis, and Roche, consultant’s honoraria from Amgen, BMS, MSD, Novartis, Pierre Fabre, Roche, and Sanofi-Aventis and travel support from Amgen, BMS, MSD, and Roche; Anja Gesierich: speaker’s honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD Sharp & Dohme and Roche, consultant’s honoraria from Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, MSD Sharp & Dohme, Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme, travel support from Bristol-Myers Squibb, MSD Sharp & Dohme, Novartis and Roche; Lucie Heinzerling speaker’s/ consultant’s honoraria from BMS, MSD, Novartis, Roche, Amgen, Pierre Fabre, Sanofi-Aventis, Curevac, research grants to institution from Novartis; Markus V. Heppt: speaker’s honoraria and/or consultant’s honoraria from Roche, Novartis, BMS, MSD and travel support from BMS; Katharina C. Kähler: consultant to Roche, BMS, MSD and received travel grants and speaker fees from Roche, BMS, MSD, Novartis, Amgen; Carmen Loquai: advisory for Roche, Amgen, Novartis, BMS, MSD, Ribological, speaker’s honoraria from Roche, BMS, MSD, Novartis, travel reimbursement from Roche, BMS, MSD, Novartis; Max Schlaak: speaker’s honoraria and/ or consultant’s honoraria from Roche, Novartis, BMS, MSD, Kyowa Kirin, Amgen, Pierre Fabre and travel support from BMS; Henner M. Stege: travel support from Novartis and Roche; Patrick Terheyden: speaker’s honoraria from BMS, Novartis, MSD, Pierre-Fabre, Curevac and Roche, consultant’s honoraria from BMS, Novartis, Pierre-Fabre, Merck Serono, Sanofi und Roche and travel support fom BMS, Pierre-Fabre and Roche; Kai-Martin Thoms: speaker’s honoraria from BMS, MSD, Novartis and Roche, consultant’s honoraria from BMS, MSD, Novartis, Roche and Pierre Fabre and travel support from BMS, Novartis, Roche and Pierre Fabre; Jochen Utikal: advisory board or honoraria and travel support from Amgen, BMS, GSK, LeoPharma, MSD, Novartis, Pierre Fabre, Roche, outside the submitted work; Lisa Zimmer: consultant/ honoraria from Roche, BMS, MSD, Novartis, Sanofi, Pierre Fabre and travel support from MSD, BMS, Amgen, Pierre Fabre, Sanofi and Novartis. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.