Funding/Support
and
role
of
the
sponsor:
None.
Acknowledgment
statement:
We
thank
the
following members
of
the
bladder
cancer
research
consortium:
Margit
Fisch,
Robert
S.
Svatek,
Lukas Lusuardi, Anirban Mitra, Siamak Daneshmand, Yair Lotan, Douglas
S.
Scherr, Marek
Babjuk,
and Debasish
Sundi.
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