Maher Hanoun, MD1*, Leo Ruhnke2*, Michael Kramer, MSc2*, Kerstin Schäfer-Eckhard, MD3*, Björn Steffen, MD4*, Tim Sauer, MD5*, Stefan W. Krause, MD6*, Christoph Schliemann, Prof., MD7*, Martin Kaufmann, MD8, Mathias Haenel, MD9*, Edgar Jost10*, Tim H Brummendorf, MD11, Lars Fransecky, MD12*, Sabrina Kraus, MD13*, Hermann Einsele14, Dirk Niemann, MD15*, Andreas Neubauer16, Johannes Kullmer17*, Ruth Seggewiss-Bernhard18*, Martin Goerner, MD19*, Gerhard Held20*, Ulrich Kaiser, MD21*, Sebastian Scholl, MD, PhD22*, Hans Christian Reinhardt, MD1*, Uwe Platzbecker, MD23, Claudia D. Baldus, MD12*, Carsten Mueller-Tidow, MD5, Martin Bornhaeuser, MD24, Hubert Serve, MD4 and Christoph Rollig, MD, MSC25*
1Department of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
2Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany
3Department of Internal Medicine 5, Hospital Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
4Department of Medicine II, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University, University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
5Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
6Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
7Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany
8Department of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany
9Department of Internal Medicine III, Chemnitz Hospital, Chemnitz, Germany
10Department of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
11Department of Internal Medicine IV, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
12Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
13Department of Medicine II, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
14Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
15Department of Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Ev. Stift St. Martin, Koblenz, Germany
16Department of Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany
17Department of Internal Medicine II, DIAKO Bremen, Bremen, Germany
18Department of Internal Medicine V, Sozialstiftung Bamberg, Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
19Department of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Klinikum Bielefeld Mitte, Bielefeld, Germany
20Department of Hematology, Oncology, Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology, University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
21Department of Hematology and Oncology, St. Bernward Krankenhaus, Hildesheim, Germany
22University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
23Department for Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
24Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
25Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital, Dresden, Germany