Urology
Volume 69, Issue 4 , Pages 714-720, April 2007

RETRACTED: EPCA-2: A Highly Specific Serum Marker for Prostate Cancer

  • Eddy S. Leman

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Grant W. Cannon

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Bruce J. Trock

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Lori J. Sokoll

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Daniel W. Chan

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Leslie Mangold

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Alan W. Partin

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Robert H. Getzenberg

      Affiliations

    • Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
    • R. Getzenberg holds a patent for the technology described in this study. This patent is owned by the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University and has been licensed to Onconome Inc. He has also received a research grant from Onconome Inc. and is a consultant to the company. The terms of this arrangement are managed by the Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Robert H. Getzenberg, Ph.D., Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Marburg 121, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287.

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

This article has been retracted at the request of the authors. They believe that the article contains findings that may be unreliable. As the authors re-reviewed the data points presented in the article, they identified differences between some of the plate reader values and those that were reported in the article. For some of the duplicates run, one of the values was indeed from the plate reader data, whereas the source of the counterpart value is not easily apparent. Therefore, because the authors could not replicate some of the counterpoint values, they cannot state if the data points represent the actual data generated in the experiments described. Furthermore, the duplicate values may not have been handled in the manner described within the Materials and Methods section of the paper and the values were not blanked. Taken together, the inconsistencies in validating the data collection and recordation warrant retraction of the article. The authors sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

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 None of the other authors declare a conflict of interest.This study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (CA65463) and a research grant from Onconome Incorporated.

PII: S0090-4295(07)00172-0

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2007.01.097

Urology
Volume 69, Issue 4 , Pages 714-720, April 2007