About the Authors

Fumitaka Koga

Contributed equally to this work with: Fumitaka Koga, Soichiro Yoshida

f-koga.uro@tmd.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Soichiro Yoshida

Contributed equally to this work with: Fumitaka Koga, Soichiro Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Tatokoro

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Satoru Kawakami

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhisa Fujii

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Jiro Kumagai

Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Len Neckers

Affiliation Urologic Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kazunori Kihara

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK KK. Performed the experiments: SY MT JK. Analyzed the data: FK SY SK YF LN. Wrote the paper: FK SY.