PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 10   —  8:00 AM   —  CC Auditorium


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Section A - GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: George Netto and Mark Rubin



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8:00 Lymphatic Space Invasion Predicts Metastatic Behavior in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma, and It May Be an Independent Prognostic Factor for Overall Survival (780)
LP Herrera, V Bird, I Reis, V Bird, M Jorda - University of Miami. Jackson Memorial Hospital and UM Sylvester Cancer Center, Miami, FL; University of Miami, Miami, FL; UM Sylvester. Division of Biostatistics, Miami, FL
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8:15 Involvement of Renal Sinus Structures in Renal Cell Carcinoma, with an Emphasis on Renal Sinus Vein Invasion (696)
A Adeniran, RH Thompson, A Gopalan, SW Fine, P Russo, VE Reuter, SK Tickoo - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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8:30 Prognostic Factors of Clear Renal Cell Carcinoma in pT1a Cases (901)
T Tsuzuki, N Nishikimi, A Katsuno, T Fujita, A Fukatsu, M Araki, N Sasa, Y Yoshino, R Hattori, M Goto - Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; Okazaki Municipal Hospital, Okazaki, Japan; Chukyo Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; Komaki Municipal Hospital, Komaki, Japan; Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Japan; Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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8:45 Fascin Regulates Prostate Cancer Cell Invasion and Is Associated with Metastasis and Biochemical Failure in Prostate Cancer (742)
AD Darnel, E Behmoaram, RT Vollmer, J Corcos, K Bijian, K Sircar, J Su, J Jiao, MA Alaoui-Jamali, TA Bismar - McGill University and Lady Davis Cancer Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; VA and Duke University Medical Centers, Durham, NC; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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9:00 PITX2 Promoter Methylation Status Is an Independent Prognostic Marker for Biochemical Recurrence in Patients with Prostate Cancer after Radical Prostatectomy (727)
E Castanos-Velez, C Bangma, S Freedland, A Hartmann, M Ittmann, P Schatz, L Sun, A van Leenders, G Weiss, TM Wheeler - Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany; Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC; University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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9:15 Methylation Analysis of Four Genes in Negative Prostate Needle Biopsies Prior to Diagnosis of Cancer (704)
M Amin, SH Merchant, AA Martinez, FA Vicini, SV Hunter, NS Goldstein - William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI; VA Hospital, Albuquerque, NM; Advanced Diagnostic Lab, Redford, MI
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9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS AND POSTER SESSION III  
11:00 Incidence and Patterns of Prostatic Involvement by Urothelial Carcinoma in Patients with Bladder Cancer Examined by Sagittal Whole-Mount Section (874)
SS Shen, JY Ro, YW Park, SP Lerner, AG Ayala - The Methodist Hospital and Research Institute, Houston; Hanyang University Hospital, Guri, Korea; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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11:15 Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation, When Combined with Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia on Biopsy, Has a Higher Rate of Cancer Detection on Subsequent Biopsies Than When Diagnosed Alone (827)
JL Merrimen, G Jones, CS Leung, LR Kapusta, JR Srigley - McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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11:30 Atypical Cribiform Lesions of the Prostate: Implications for Diagnosis in Prostate Biopsies (926)
M Zhou, C Magi-Galluzzi, R Shah - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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11:45 FAS-N Expression in Prostate Cancer: Can It Be Used To Distinguish Cancer from Benign in Prostate Biopsies? (920)
J Zhang, G Msangi, S Bryant, E Ryu, T Sebo - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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