∗Department of Endocrine Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
†Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
‡Department of Endocrine Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
§Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
¶Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
||Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
∗∗Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
††Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‡‡Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
§§Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
¶¶Department of Endocrine Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Reprints: Gerlof D. Valk, MD, PhD, Department of Endocrine Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Mailbox L.00.408, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected].
Disclosure: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This work was supported by a Dutch Cancer Society research grant (UU 2014–7102), an unrestricted grant from Ipsen Pharmaceutical and a start-up grant from the Comprehensive Cancer Center of The Netherlands (IKNL). The funding sources had no influence on the study question, design, data acquisition, statistical analysis, and interpretation of data.
Author contribution: All Dutch academic medical centers were involved in the project to allow a population-based analysis. All authors contribute to the study conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of the data, drafting and revising the article, and gives a final approval of the version to be published.
