About the Authors

Roni Gilad

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Karen Meir

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Ilan Stein

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Larissa German

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Eli Pikarsky

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Nicola J. Mabjeesh

nicolam@tlvmc.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Urology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG EP NJM. Performed the experiments: RG KM IS. Analyzed the data: RG LG EP NJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM IS EP NJM. Wrote the paper: RG EP NJM.