About the Authors

Georg Johnen

johnen@ipa-dguv.de

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Katarzyna Gawrych

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Heike Bontrup

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Beate Pesch

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Dirk Taeger

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

Séverine Banek

Affiliation Institute of Urology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Matthias Kluckert

Affiliations Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany, German Social Accident Insurance's Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry (BG RCI), Heidelberg, Germany

Harald Wellhäußer

Affiliation German Social Accident Insurance's Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry (BG RCI), Heidelberg, Germany

Friedhelm Eberle

Affiliation Occupational Medicine and Health Protection, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Michael Nasterlack

Affiliation Occupational Medicine and Health Protection, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Gabriele Leng

Affiliation Safety - Health Protection, Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG (formerly Bayer), Leverkusen, Germany

Arnulf Stenzl

Affiliation Institute of Urology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Thomas Brüning

Affiliation Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany

and the UroScreen Study Group

Membership of the UroScreen Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The author GL is an employee of Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG. FE and MN are employees of BASF SE. AS received free assay kits from Abbott Laboratories and Matritech/Alere GmbH. AS also received travel grants from Matritech/Alere. GJ received free assay reagents from Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare no other competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GJ BP DT MK HW MN GL AS TB. Performed the experiments: KG HB SB FE. Analyzed the data: GJ KG HB BP DT. Wrote the paper: GJ KG HB BP DT MN TB.