About the Authors

Paul Toren

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Soojin Kim

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Fraser Johnson

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Amina Zoubeidi

azoubeidi@prostatecentre.com

Affiliation The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Competing Interests

AZ discloses receiving research funding from AstraZeneca and Gilead Sciences. PT discloses receiving research funding from Innocrin Pharma. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT AZ. Performed the experiments: PT SK FJ. Analyzed the data: PT SK AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ. Wrote the paper: PT AZ.