PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 28   —  1:00 PM   —  Convention Center Ballroom B


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Section A - GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Milton W. Datta and Maria Merino



1:00 Variable Expression of a-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Prostate Cancer (721)
AJ Murphy, CA Hughes, O Sheils, JJ O'Leary, B Loftus - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
1:15 Defining Prostate Cancer Progression Using a Multiplex Panel of 13 Tissue Biomarkers (596)
TA Bismar, F Demichelis, A Riva, R Kim, S Lnu, J Kutok, JC Aster, J Tang, R Kuefer, MD Hofer, PG Febbo, AM Chinnaiyan, MA Rubin - Brigham and Women's Hospital; Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy; Boston; Ann Arbor; Ulm, Germany; Boston
1:30 Gene Expression Signatures in Benign and Malignant Epithelial Cells from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded Prostatectomy (649)
B Furusato, S Shaheduzzaman, G Petrovics, L Ravindranath, M Nau, DG McLeod, M Vahey, S Srivastava, IA Sesterhenn - AFIP, Washington, DC; CPDR, Bethesda, MD; WRAIR, Silver Spring, MD; WRAMC, Washington, DC
1:45 Molecular Evidence for Independent Origin of Coexisting Tumors in Multifocal Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder (685)
TD Jones, M Wang, GT MacLennan, JN Eble, A Lopez-Beltran, S Zhang, F Ma, A Cocco, L Cheng - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Cordoba University, Cordoba, Spain
2:00 Cystic Adult Renal Lesions - Radiologic and Pathologic Correlations (733)
MM Picken, T Antic, A Jahoda, T Demos, SC Campbell - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
2:15 Cystic Nephroma (CN) and Mixed Epithelial and Stromal Tumor (MEST) of the Kidney: Are They One and the Same Entity? (782)
J Turbiner, MB Amin, A Radhakrishnan, PA Humphrey, JR Srigley, L De Leval, E Oliva - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; C.H.U du Sart-Tilman, Liege, Belgium
2:30 The Dual 5-alpha-Reductase Inhibitor Dutasteride Induces Atrophic Changes and Decreases Relative Cancer Volume in the Human Prostate (675)
KA Iczkowski, J Qiu, J Qian, MC Somerville, RS Rittmaster, GL Andriole, DG Bostwick - Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Bostwick Laboratories, Richmond, VA; GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC; Washington University, St. Louis, MO; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2:45 Pathological Characterization of Residual Prostate Cancer in the Neoadjuvant Surgical Model: A Proposal for Standardization of Morphologic Features of Treated Prostate Cancer (769)
RF Tibbs, NA Abrahams, X Wang, F Vakar-Lopez, CA Pettaway, LL Pisters, P Mathew, TJ McDonnell, K Do, P Troncoso - MD Anderson Cancer Cntr, Houston, TX; Univ of Nebraska Med Cntr, Omaha, NE
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp
The Biological and Potentially Therapeutic Activities of Short RNAs
Convention Center, Ballroom B