Potential for new, less invasive ways to detect and treat bladder cancer

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Fisher and Dasgupta collaborated on this study with Devanand Sarkar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Harrison Research Scholar and member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics program at VCU Massey, associate professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at VCU School of Medicine and associate scientific director of cancer therapeutics at VIMM; Shilpa Bhatia, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scientist in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics; Swadesh K. Das, Ph.D., instructor in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and VIMM member; Luni Emdad, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics program at VCU Massey, assistant professor in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and VIMM member; Aleksandar Janjic, research technician in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics; Mitchell E. Menezes, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scientist in the VCU Department of Human and Molecular Genetics; Nitai D. Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at VCU School of Medicine; and Chunbo Shao, M.D., Ph.D., postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

This study was supported by National Institutes of Health grant CA097318, the National Foundation for Cancer Research, the Elisa U Pardee Foundation and, in part, by VCU Massey Cancer Center's NIH-NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA016059.

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