PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  1:00 PM   —  Marriott Salon 2


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Section B - GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Theresa Chan and Seymour Rosen



1:00 Amplification of a Mitotic Kinase Gene as a Marker of Bladder Carcinoma (703)
J Jeong, J Bondaruk, H Zhou, R-D Zhang, D-S Yoon, F Vakar-Lopez, S Ito, F Jiang, D Johnston, HB Grossman, W Brinkley, S Sen, B Czerniak
The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
1:15 Detection of Bladder Cancer by Proteomic Profiling of Voided Urine Sediments (734)
T Majewski, E Fung, E Dalmasso, C Clarke, HB Grossman, W Benedict, D Johnston, B Czerniak
The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
1:30 Florid Von Brunn Nests (VBN) Mimicking Urothelial Carcinoma: A Morphologic and Immunohistochemical Comparison to the Nested Variant of Urothelial Carcinoma (NVUC) (799)
KE Volmar, TY Chan, AM De Marzo, JI Epstein
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
1:45 Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia, High Grade (PIN): Pathological and Clinical Findings on Initial and Repeat Ten-Core Biopsy (779)
J Siever, A Oryschak, K Trpkov
Rockyview Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada
2:00 High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Needle Biopsy Tissue as a Risk Factor for Detection of Adenocarcinoma : Current Level of Risk in a Screening Population (689)
N Gokden, K Roehl, PA Humphrey
Univ. of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
2:15 Recent Trends Regarding the Significance of Isolated High Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia "HGPIN" in Predicting Prostate Cancer "PCA" on Follow Up Biopsies: Is There a Change in Confirming Cancer Diagnosis? A Multi Institutional Study (764)
W Sakr, D Grignon, J Srigley, P Troncoso, P Tamboli, E Lopez-Corona, V Reuter
Harper University Hospital, the Karmanos Cancer Institute & Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Credit Valley Hospital, Mississagua, ON, Canada; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2:30 Overexpression of Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase/P504S in Recurrent Prostatic Adenocarcinoma after Radiation (704)
Z Jiang, M Tretiakova, G Steinberg, BA Woda, XJ Yang
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2:45 Comparison of Monoclonal Antibody (P504S) and Polyclonal Antibody to a-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase in Benign, Atypical and Malignant Prostate Tissues (718)
LP Kunju, MA Rubin, R Shen, C Ingold, AM Chinnaiyan, RB Shah
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. Irving L. Weissman
Stem Cell Biology: Past, Present and Future
Marriott Ballroom