Clinical stage provides useful prognostic information even after pathological stage is known for prostate cancer in the PSA era

• Maxine M. Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7138-6228

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• Jaquelyn L. Jahn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• John R. Barber,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Misop Han,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Urology and the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Meir J. Stampfer,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Elizabeth A. Platz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Urology and the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Kathryn L. Penney

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kpenney@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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