Moritz Fürstenau, MD1*, Emelie Curovic Rotbain, MD, PhD2*, Laura Eurelings, MD, PhD3*, Sandra Robrecht, PhD4*, Julia Von Tresckow, MD5*, Adam Giza6*, Michael Gregor, MD7*, Patrick Thornton8*, Philipp Bernhard Staber, MD, PhD9, Tamar Tadmor, MD10*, Vesa Lindström11*, Gunnar Juliusson, MD, PhD12, Ann Janssens, MD13*, Christof Schneider, MD14*, Thomas Noesslinger, MD15, Martin Andres16*, Adrian Schmidt17*, Elisabeth Vandenberghe, MD18, Lev Shvidel, MD19*, Christian Bjørn Poulsen, MD, PhD20*, Henrik Frederiksen, MD, PhD21, Caspar Da Cunha-Bang, MD, PhD2*, Kourosh Lotfi22*, Rogier Mous, MD PhD23*, Martine E.D. Chamuleau, MD PhD24, Ka Lung Wu25, Margriet Oosterveld, MD26*, Jesus Duque-Afonso, MD27*, Christian Bogner28*, Thomas Wolff, MD29*, Johannes Schetelig, MD, MSc30, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, MD31*, Christoph van Roye32*, Nadine Kutsch, MD6*, Anna Maria Fink, MD33*, Kirsten Fischer, MD33*, Emily Holmes34*, Matthias Ritgen35*, Eugen Tausch, MD14*, Stephan Stilgenbauer, MD14, Michael J. Hallek, MD36, Arnon P. Kater, MD, PhD37, Carsten Utoft Niemann, MD, PhD2*, Mark-David Levin38 and Barbara F. Eichhorst, MD39
1Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Cologne University Hospital, Koeln, Germany
2Department of Hematology, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
3Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis, Dordrecht, Netherlands
4German CLL Study Group, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
5Clinic for Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
6Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf; German CLL Study Group, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
7Division of Hematology, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, Lucerne, Switzerland
8Department of Haematology, Beaumont Hospital, RCSI, Cancer Trials Ireland, Dublin, Dublin, IRL
9Department of Medicine I, Division of Hematology & Hemostaseology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
10Bnai Zion, Haifa, Israel
11Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Hematology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
12Department of Hematology, Lund University Cancer Center, Lund, Sweden
13University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
14Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of CLL, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
15Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, AUT
16Department of Hematology and Central Hematology Laboratory, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
17Stadtspital Zürich Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland
18St. James's Hospital, Dublin, IRL
19Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel, ISR
20Department of Hematology, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
21Department of Hematology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, DNK
22University Hospital/Linkoping University, Linkoping, SWE
23Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Amsterdam, Netherlands
24Department of Hematology, Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
25ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerp, Belgium
26Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, NLD
27Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, DEU
28Klinikum Landshut, Landshut, DEU
29Onkologie-Lerchenfeld, Hamburg, DEU
30Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany
31Outpatient Clinic, Landshut, Germany
32Onkologie Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
33Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Cologne University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
34German CLL Study Group, University of Cologne, Cologne, Cologne, Germany
35Department of Internal Medicine II (Hematology/Oncology), University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
36University of Cologne, Cologne, DEU
37Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, on behalf of HOVON, Netherlands
38Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, Netherlands
39University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany