About the Authors

Martin Trepel

m.trepel@uke.de (MT); m.binder@uke.de (MB)

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Victoria Martens

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Doll

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Janina Rahlff

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Barbara Gösch

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Sonja Loges

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Mascha Binder

m.trepel@uke.de (MT); m.binder@uke.de (MB)

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, BMT with section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

Sonja Loges serves as an editor on PLoS One's editorial board. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB MT. Performed the experiments: VM CD JR BG. Analyzed the data: MB MT SL. Wrote the paper: MB MT.