Concepts for banking tissue in urologic oncology--the International Bladder Cancer Bank.

Peter J. Goebell, Susan Groshen, Bernd J. Schmitz-Dräger, Richard Sylvester, Manolis Kogevinas, Núria Malats, Guido Sauter, H. Barton Grossman, Colin P.N. Dinney, Fred Waldman, and Richard J. Cote Departments of Pathology and Urology and Preventive Medicine, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; Department of Urology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; Department of Urology, EuromedClinic, Fürth, Germany; Head Meta-Analysis Unit, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels, Belgium; Institut Municipal d’Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Pathology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Urology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; and Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California