Mansour, Ahmed M.
Abdelrahim, Mona
Laymon, Mahmoud
Elsherbeeny, Mamdouh
Sultan, Mohammed
Shokeir, Ahmed
Mosbah, Ahmed
Abol-Enein, Hassan
Awadalla, Amira
Cho, Eunho
Sairam, Vikram
Park, Taeeun D.
Shahid, Muhammad
Kim, Jayoung
Funding for this research was provided by:
the U.S.-Egypt Science and Technology Development Fund by the National Academies of Sciences
National Institutes of Health (1U01DK103260, 1R01DK100974)
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-15-1-0415)
Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention (1U01DP006079)
the Steven Spielberg Discovery Fund in Prostate Cancer Research Career Development Award
Article History
Received: 3 January 2017
Accepted: 19 October 2018
First Online: 9 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The biospecimens used in the present retrospective study were available from Mansoura University. The Ethics Committee of Mansoura Urology and Nephrology Center approved the protocol used for this study. The Institutional Review Board of Mansoura Urology and Nephrology Center approved analysis of all samples and database reviewed retrospectively (Mansoura UNC IRB #RP-16-12-91). Consent from patients for use of the archived bladder specimens samples or their data was waived by the IRB because this study was retrospective study.
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