Frauke Theis1*, Peter Paschka, MD1, Daniela Weber1*, Verena I. Gaidzik, MD1*, Lars Bullinger, MD1, Maria-Veronica Teleanu, MD1*, Gudrun Göhring, MD2*, Helmut R. Salih, MD3, Andrea Kündgen4*, Hans-Juergen Salwender, MD5*, Joerg Westermann, MD6*, Walter Fiedler, MD7, Katharina Götze8, Heinz-August Horst, MD, PhD9, Gerald G Wulf, MD10, Michael Luebbert, MD11*, Dominik Wolf, MD12*, Thomas Kindler, MD13*, Mark Ringhoffer, MD14*, Doris Kraemer, MD15*, Jürgen Krauter, MD16*, Felicitas Thol, MD17, Michael Heuser, M.D.17, Arnold Ganser, M.D.17, Hartmut Döhner, MD1, Richard F. Schlenk, MD1 and Konstanze Döhner, MD1
1Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
2Institute of Cell and Molecular Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
3Department of Hematology and Oncology, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
4Department of Hematology, Oncology and Clinical Immunology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
5Asklepios Hospital Hamburg Altona, Hamburg, Germany
6Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
7Hubertus Wald University Cancer Center Department of Oncology and Hematology, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
8Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Munich, Munich, Germany
9Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
10Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
11Department of Medicine, Devision of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
12Department of Internal Medicine III, Oncology, Hematology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
13University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
14Department of Internal Medicine III, Municipal Hospital of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
15Department of Oncology and Hematology, Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
16Department of Internal Medicine III, Municipal Hospital of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
17Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany