Heydt, Carina
Wölwer, Christina B.
Velazquez Camacho, Oscar
Wagener-Ryczek, Svenja
Pappesch, Roberto
Siemanowski, Janna
Rehker, Jan
Haller, Florian
Agaimy, Abbas
Worm, Karl
Herold, Thomas
Pfarr, Nicole
Weichert, Wilko
Kirchner, Thomas
Jung, Andreas
Kumbrink, Jörg
Goering, Wolfgang
Esposito, Irene
Buettner, Reinhard
Hillmer, Axel M.
Merkelbach-Bruse, Sabine
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Köln
Article History
Received: 23 July 2020
Accepted: 17 February 2021
First Online: 27 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: FFPE tissue samples were obtained as part of routine clinical care under approved ethical protocols complied with the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany. As informed written consent was already given from each patient the need for ethics approval for this study was waived by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany (Institutional Review Board).
: Not applicable.
: CH received speaker fees: AstraZeneca, BMS, Illumina. FH received research funding and/or speakers fee and travel costs: Illumina, Qiagen. NP received advisory board honoraria and/or speaker fees: Thermo Fisher, Illumina, Novartis, Roche, BMS. WW received advisory board honoraria and/or speaker fees: Roche, MSD, BMS, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, Lilly, Boehringer, Novartis, Takeda, Amgen and Astellas. WW receives research funding from Roche, MSD, BMS and Bruker. TK received fees for consulting/advisory/speaker: Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DGP, IAP, Merck, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Takeda. AJ received advisory board honoraria and/or speaker fees and/or travel costs: Amgen, AstraZeneca, Biocartis, BMS, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Chinese Society for Pathology, DGP, EACR, IAP, Merck-Serono, MSD, QuIP, Roche, Takeda. JK received advisory board honorary and speaker fees: Novartis, Roche. SMB received advisory board honoraria and/or speaker fees: AstraZeneca, Bayer, BMS, Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, non-financial support from Janssen.