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Letter to the editor regarding the article “Association of benign prostatic hyperplasia and subsequent risk of bladder cancer: an Asian population cohort study”

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  1. Department of Urology, Çatalca Ilyas Çokay State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Huseyin Besiroglu

  2. Cerrahpasa Medicine Faculty, Department of Urology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Emin Ozbek

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HB and EO contributed equally to this work. Project was developed by EO. Data collection, management and manuscript writing were performed by HB. Data analysis and manuscript editing were performed by EO.

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Correspondence to Huseyin Besiroglu.

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This study was carried out in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, as revised in 2008.

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Besiroglu, H., Ozbek, E. Letter to the editor regarding the article “Association of benign prostatic hyperplasia and subsequent risk of bladder cancer: an Asian population cohort study”. World J Urol 36, 1795–1796 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-018-2271-1

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