This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/pon.4760 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Psychological distress in lung cancer survivors at least one year after diagnosis – results of a German multicenter cross-sectional study Martin Eichler 1,2,3 , Marlene Hechtner 1,2 , Beatrice Wehler 4,5 , Roland Buhl 5 , Jan Stratmann 6 , Martin Sebastian 6 , Heinz Schmidberger 7 , Jessica Peuser 8 , Cornelius Kortsik 8 , Ursula Nestle 9,10 , Sebastian Wiesemann 11 , Hubert Wirtz 12 , Thomas Wehler 13 , Maria Blettner 1 , Susanne Singer 1 1 Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center Mainz 2 German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg 3 Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden 4 Department of Radio-Oncology, University Hospital Saarland, Homburg 5 Department of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Mainz 6 Medical Department II, University Hospital Frankfurt 7 Department of Radio-Oncology, University Medical Center Mainz 8 Department of Pulmonology, Hildegardis Hospital, Mainz 9 Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center, Freiburg 10 Department of Radiotherapy, Kliniken Maria Hilf, Moenchengladbach, Germany 11 Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center, Freiburg 12 Department of Pneumology, University Medical Centre Leipzig 13 Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Saarland, Homburg Correspondence Address: Martin Eichler Department of Internal Medicine I University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus TU Dresden Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany phone: 0351 / 458-19057 email: martin.eichler@uniklinikum-dresden.de