About the Authors

Hao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dror Berel

Affiliations Biostatistics Core, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yanping Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ping Li

Affiliation Department of Surgery/Division of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Neil A. Bhowmick

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Robert A. Figlin

Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology and Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hyung L. Kim

kimhl@cshs.org

Affiliations Department of Surgery/Division of Urology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HZ NAB RAF HLK. Performed the experiments: HZ YW PL. Analyzed the data: HZ DB NAB HLK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB. Wrote the paper: HZ HLK.