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Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 349-464 (July-August 2009)
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Outcomes and Quality of Care in Urology
Edited by Badrinath R. Konety MD, MBA

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Editorial Board
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Contents
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News and Topics


Planned renal allograft transplantation after tumor excision: Increasing the availability of living-donor kidneys, 18 May 2009
Maxwell Meng, Jared M. Whitson
pages 349-351
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Review Article


Dilemmas in the treatment of urothelial cancers of the prostate, 25 April 2008
Dena L. Walsh, Sam S. Chang
pages 352-357
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Original Articles


The failure of a nerve sparing template to improve urinary continence after radical prostatectomy: Attention to study design, 25 April 2008
David T. Tzou, Bruce L. Dalkin, Bea Anne Christopher, Haiyan Cui
pages 358-362
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P-glycoprotein activity in renal clear cell carcinoma, 28 April 2008
Elena Soto-Vega, Carlos Arroyo, Yvonne Richaud-Patin, Mario García-Carrasco, Luis G. Vázquez-Lavista, Luis Llorente
pages 363-366
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Anxiety and depression in patients with prostate cancer and other urogenital cancer: A longitudinal study, 28 April 2008
Andreas Hinz, Oliver Krauss, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Thilo Schwalenberg, Dominik Michalski, Reinhold Schwarz
pages 367-372
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Association of chromosomal locus 8q24 and risk of prostate cancer: A hospital-based study of German patients treated with brachytherapy, 14 July 2008
Andreas Meyer, Peter Schürmann, Maryam Ghahremani, Ertan Kocak, Maria-Jantje Brinkhaus, Michael Bremer, Johann H. Karstens, Jörn Hagemann, Stefan Machtens, Thilo Dörk
pages 373-376
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Isoforms of hyaluronidases can be a predictor of a prostate cancer of good prognosis, 22 July 2008
Vanessa K. de Sá, Flávio C. Canavez, Iran A. Silva, Miguel Srougi, Katia R.M. Leite
pages 377-381
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XAF1 mRNA expression improves progression-free and overall survival for patients with advanced bladder cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 16 June 2008
Marcos B. Pinho, Fernanda Costas, João Sellos, Rodrigo Dienstmann, Patricia B. Andrade, Daniel Herchenhorn, Fábio Afonso Peixoto, Valdelice O. Santos, Isabele A. Small, Denise P. Guimarães, Carlos G. Ferreira
pages 382-390
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Sunitinib malate is active against human urothelial carcinoma and enhances the activity of cisplatin in a preclinical model, 05 June 2008
Guru Sonpavde, Weiguo Jian, Hao Liu, Meng-Fen Wu, Steven S. Shen, Seth P. Lerner
pages 391-399
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Differences in shotgun protein expression profile between superficial bladder transitional cell carcinoma and normal urothelium, 26 September 2008
Hai Tao Niu, Yi Bing Zhang, Hai Ping Jiang, Bo Cheng, Guang Sun, Yi Wang, Ya Jun E, De Quan Pang, Ji Wu Chang
pages 400-406
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Adult cystic nephroma: A case report and a review of the literature, 16 June 2008
Baris Kuzgunbay, Tahsin Turunc, Filiz Bolat, Ferhat Kilinc
pages 407-409
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Seminar Section Introduction


Outcomes and quality of care in urology
Badrinath R. Konety
page 410
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Seminar Articles


Defining high quality health care
Matthew R. Cooperberg, John D. Birkmeyer, Mark S. Litwin
pages 411-416
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Do high-volume hospitals and surgeons provide better care in urologic oncology?
James A. Eastham
pages 417-421
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The critical limitations of volume-outcome analysis
Lars Ellison
pages 422-426
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Quality of care indicators for prostate cancer: Progress toward consensus
David C. Miller, Christopher S. Saigal
pages 427-434
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Candidate quality of care indicators for localized bladder cancer
Matthew R. Cooperberg, Michael P. Porter, Badrinath R. Konety
pages 435-442
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Understanding the relationship between health care quality and the renal mass
Seth A. Strope, J. Stuart Wolf, Khaled S. Hafez, Rodney L. Dunn, John M. Hollingsworth, Scott M. Gilbert, Brent K. Hollenbeck
pages 443-447
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Quality of care for testis cancer
Philipp Dahm, Charles J. Rosser, James M. McKiernan
pages 448-453
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Letters to Editor


Response to the article by J.E. Montie, Screen detected, low volume prostate cancer: The case for active treatment. Urol Oncol 2008;26:511–515.
Laurence Klotz
page 454
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Reply
James E. Montie
page 454
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Survey Section Editorial Board
page 455
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Urologic Oncology Survey


Commentary on Adjuvant radiotherapy for pathological T3N0M0 prostate cancer significantly reduces risk of metastases and improves survival: Long-term follow-up of a randomized clinical trial: Thompson IM, Tangen CM, Paradelo J, Lucia MS, Miller G, Troyer D, Messing E, Forman J, Chin J, Swanson G, Canby-Hagino E, and Crawford ED, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Mark A. Ritter
pages 456-457
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Commentary on Comparison of biochemical relapse-free survival between primary Gleason score 3 and primary Gleason score 4 for biopsy Gleason score 7 prostate cancer: Burdick MJ, Reddy CA, Ulchaker J, Angermeier K, Altman A, Chehade N, Mahadevan A, Kupelian PA, Klein EA, and Ciezki JP, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Mark A. Ritter
pages 457-458
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Commentary on Long-term follow-up of patients with prostate cancer and nodal metastases treated by pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical prostatectomy: The positive impact of adjuvant radiotherapy: Da Pozzo LF, Cozzarini C, Briganti A, Suardi N, Salonia A, Bertini R, Gallina A, Bianchi M, Fantini GV, Bolognesi A, Fazio F, Montorsi F, Rigatti P, Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
Alexander R. Gottschalk
page 458
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Commentary on Prospective assessment of gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicity of salvage radiotherapy for patients with prostate-specific antigen relapse or local recurrence after radical prostatectomy: Pearse M, Choo R, Danjoux C, Gardner S, Morton G, Szumacher E, Loblaw A, Cheung P, Department of Radiation Oncology, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Alexander R. Gottschalk
page 459
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Commentary on Endocrine treatment, with or without radiotherapy, in locally advanced prostate cancer (SPCG-7/SFUO-3): An open randomized phase III trial: Widmark A, Klepp O, Solberg A, Damber JE, Angelsen A, Fransson P, Lund JA, Tasdemir I, Hoyer M, Wiklund F, Fossa SD, Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Alexander R. Gottschalk
pages 459-460
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Commentary on The results of concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for recurrence after treatment with bacillus Calmette Guerin for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Is immediate cystectomy always necessary? Wo JY, Shipley WU, Dahl DM, Coen JJ, Heney NM, Kaufman DS, Zietman AL, Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, and Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Alexander R. Gottschalk
page 460
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Commentary on Circulating microRNAs as stable blood-based markers for cancer detection: Mitchell PS, Parkin RK, Kroh EM, Fritz BR, Wyman SK, Pogosova-Agadjanyan EL, Peterson A, Noteboom J, O'Briant KC, Allen A, Lin DW, Urban N, Drescher CW, Knudsen, Stirewalt DL, Gentleman R, Vessella RL, Nelson PS, Martin DB, Tewari M, Divisions of Human Biology, Clinical Research, and Public Health Services, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Adam S. Kibel
page 461
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Commentary on Transcriptome sequencing to detect gene fusions in cancer: Maher CA, Kumar-Sinha C, Cao X, Kalyana-Sundaram S, Han B, Jing X, Sam L, Barrette T, Palanisamy N, Chinnaiyan AM, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Ann Arbor, MI
Adam S. Kibel
pages 461-462
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Commentary on Variation in KLK genes, prostate-specific antigen and risk of prostate cancer: Ahn J, Berndt SI, Wacholder S, Kraft P, Kibel AS, Yeager M, Albanes D, Giovannucci E, Stampfer MJ, Virtamo J, Thun MJ, Feigelson HS, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Thomas G, Hunter DJ, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover RN, Chanock SJ, Hayes RB
Adam S. Kibel
page 462
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Commentary on Cumulative association of five genetic variants with prostate cancer: Zheng SL, Sun J, Wiklund F, Smith S, Stattin P, Li G, Adami HO, Hsu FC, Zhu Y, Bälter K, Kader AK, Turner AR, Liu W, Bleecker ER, Meyers DA, Duggan D, Carpten JD, Chang BL, Isaacs WB, Xu J, Grönberg H, Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Adam S. Kibel
pages 462-463
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Commentary on Germline SDHB mutations and familial renal cell carcinoma: Ricketts C, Woodward ER, Killick P, Morris MR, Astuti D, Latif F, Maher ER, Cancer Research UK Renal Molecular Oncology Group, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, University of Birmingham School of Medicine, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Adam S. Kibel
pages 463-464
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