Affiliations

• ¹ Lung Cancer Group Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: anna.kron@uk-koeln.de.
• ² Lung Cancer Group Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ³ Department of Medical Oncology, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁴ Translational Oncology/Early Clinical Trial Unit (ECTU), Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken and Bavarian Cancer Research Center (BZKF), University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Pathology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Pneumology, Heckeshorn Lung Clinic, Helios Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁷ Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universita¨t Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Medical Oncology and Pneumology (Internal Medicine VIII), Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁹ Senckenberg Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ¹¹ Institute of Pathology, Charit´e - Universit¨atsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹² Institute of Pathology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Medicine V, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.