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Bernard H. Bochner certifies that all conflicts of
interest, including specific financial interests and relationships and
affiliations relevant to the subject matter or materials discussed in the
manuscript (eg, employment/affiliation, grants or funding, consultan-
cies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties,
or patents filed, received, or pending), are the following: None.
Funding/Support and role of the sponsor:
Supported by The Sidney
Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers, the Michael and Zena
Wiener for Therapeutics Program in Bladder Cancer, Pin Down Bladder
Cancer, the Marie-Jose´e and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular
Oncology, and the National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Core Grant
Number P30-CA008748.
Appendix A. Supplementary data
Supplementary data associated with this article can be
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. eururo.2017.05.032.
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