A web-based system for individualised survival estimation in breast cancer

Funding, contributors, and competing interest statements

We thank Kaija Holli, Liisa Elomaa, Liisa Pylkkanen, Vesa Kataja, Taina Turpeenniemi-Hujanen and Tiina Salminen for collecting the clinical and follow-up data.

Funding: Funding: This study was supported, the Academy of Finland (HJ), the Cancer

Society of Finland (HJ), the Research Funds of Helsinki University Central Hospital (JL, HJ),

the Yamanouchi European Foundation (HJ), the Finska Läkaresällskapet (JL, ML), the Arvid

and Greta Olin Foundation (JL), and the K Albin Johansson foundation (JL, ML).

Contributors: JL and ML had the idea for the internet-based case-match system and developed the website. ML wrote the code for the interface. HJ initiated the FinProg project and coordinated it. JI supervised the tissue array analysis in collaboration with HJ, who funded it. All authors contributed to subsequent drafts and approved the final version. JL will act as guarantor.

Competing interests: None declared.