title: Reply to Hiten D. Patel and Mohamad E. Allaf's letter to the editor re: Maxine Sun, Andreas Becker, Zhe Tian, et al. Management of localized kidney cancer: calculating cancer-specific mortality and competing risks of death for surgery and nonsurgical management. Eur Urol. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2013.03.034.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Canada. Electronic address: mcw.sun@umontreal.ca.
authors.forename: Maxine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Pierre I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Karakiewicz
authors.forename: Quoc-Dien
authors.initials: QD
authors.lastname: Trinh
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy