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  1. MW Kattan is Chairman of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH,

    Michael W Kattan

  2. PT Scardino is Chair of the Department of Surgery, and Florence and Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair of Urologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.,

    Peter T Scardino

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MW Kattan is a consultant for Sanofi–Aventis. PT Scardino declared no competing interests.

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Kattan, M., Scardino, P. Evidence for the usefulness of nomograms. Nat Rev Urol 4, 638–639 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0968

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