== Heading text ==Francisco G. La Rosa, M.D. Dr. Francisco G. La Rosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and a member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. He is an active clinician, researcher, and teacher and specializes in genitourinary, renal and heart pathology, and pathology informatics with emphasis on telehealth and telemedicine. His main hobbies are photography and video, and he has created several educational web sites. He has 95 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is an active member of many national and international organizations, including the College of American Pathologists, American Urological Association, Catholic Medical Association, American Telemedicine Association, Asociación Iberoamericana de Teleslud y Telemedicina, and Peruvian American Medical Association. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the journal “Revista de la AITT,” is a member of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Genitourinary Committee and collaborates with several research groups in innovative technology for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate and urinary cancer.
Peer Review Journals (100) 1. Francisco G. La Rosa and David W. Talmage. The failure of a major histocompatibility antigen to stimulate a thyroid allograft reaction after culture in oxygen. Journal of Experimental Medicine 157:898 906, 1983. 2. Albert Zlotnik;... Francisco G. La Rosa, et al. Coordinate production by a T cell hybridoma of gamma interferon and three other lymphokine activities: multiple activities of a single lymphokine? The Journal of Immunology 131:794 800, 1983. 3. Francisco G. La Rosa and David W. Talmage. Synergism between minor and MHC histocompatibility antigens in the rejection of cultured allografts. Transplantation 39:480 485, 1985. 4. David W. Talmage, Francisco G. La Rosa, Dawn Smilek and Timothy Ammons. The tolerance that develops in recipients of cultured allografts is an active process that affects both the activation and effector function of cytotoxic T cells. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 224:187 194, 1986. 5. Francisco G. La Rosa and David W. Talmage. Tolerance to cultured allografts protects third party grafts containing new MHC and common minor antigens. Transplantation 43:314 316, 1987. 6. Francisco G. La Rosa and David W. Talmage. The abrogation of thyroid allograft rejection by culture in acid medium. Transplantation 44: 592, 1987. 7. Francisco G. La Rosa. Abrogation of mouse pancreatic islet allograft rejection by a four day culture. Transplantation 46: 330 3, 1988. 8. Liming Hao, Yi Wang, Ronald G. Gill, Francisco G. La Rosa, David W. Talmage, and Kevin J. Lafferty. Role of gamma interferon in islet allograft rejection: class I MHC antigen induction. Transplantation Proceedings 21:2697 9, 1989. 9. Francisco G. La Rosa, David W. Talmage. MHC antigen expression on parenchymal cells of thyroid allografts is not by itself sufficient to induce rejection. Transplantation 49: 605-609, 1990. 10. Liming Hao, Yi Wang, RG Gill, Francisco G. La Rosa, David W. Talmage, and Kevin J. Lafferty. Role of lymphokine in islet allograft rejection. Transplantation 49: 609-614, 1990. 11. Yi Wang, Oscar Pontesilli, Ronald G. Gill, Francisco G. La Rosa and Kevin J. Lafferty. The role of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the destruction of islet grafts by spontaneously diabetic mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 88:527-531, 1991. 12. Francisco G. La Rosa, Dawn Smilek, David W. Talmage, Kevin J. Lafferty, Paul Bauling, and Timothy J. Ammons. Evidence that tolerance to cultured thyroid allografts is an active immunological process. Transplantation 53:903-913, 1992. 13. Luis R. Lopez, Michelle E. Santos, Luis R. Espinoza, and Francisco G. La Rosa. Clinical significance of IgA versus IgG and IgM anti-cardiolipin antibodies in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: correlation with thrombosis, thrombocytopenia and recurrent abortion. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 98:449-454,1992 14. Kedar N. Prasad, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Erika Carvalho, Francisco G. La Rosa, Elias Balbinder, Arlen Meyers, David Quisell. Establishment of primary culture of rat and human parotid epithelial cells for transfection experiments. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology 28A:493-499, 1992. 15. Brenda J. Bradley, Kathryn Haskins, Francisco G. La Rosa, Kevin J. Lafferty. CD8 cells are not required for islet destruction induced by a CD4+ islet-specific T cell clone. Diabetes 41:1603-1608, 1992. 16. Naim N. Shehadeh, Francisco G. La Rosa and Kevin J. Lafferty. Altered cytokine activity in adjuvant inhibition of autoimmune diabetes. Journal of Autoimmunity 6:291-300, 1993. 17. Kedar N. Prasad, Erika Carvalho, Judith Edwards-Prasad, and Francisco G. La Rosa. Relationship between adenosine 3',5' -cyclic monophosphate level, cell proliferation, and -amylase in rat parotid. Biochemical Cell Biology 71:355-360, 1993. 18. Kedar N. Prasad, Erika Carvalho, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Francisco G. La Rosa, Sanjay Kumar, Jae Ho Kim, Arlen Meyers, and Susan Kentroti. Establishment of human parotid pleomorphic adenoma cells in culture: morphological and biochemical characterization. In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology 30A:312-320, May 1994. 19. Kedar N. Prasad, Erika Carvalho, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Francisco G. La Rosa, Rita Kumar, and S. Kumar. Establishment and characterization of immortalized cell lines from rat parotid glands. In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology 30A:321-328, May 1994. 20. Kedar N. Prasad, Erika Carvalho, Susan Kentroti, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Francisco G. La Rosa, Sanjay Kumar, Curt Freed, and Antonia Vernadakis. Production of terminally differentiated neuroblastoma cells in culture for neural transplant studies. Restorative Neurological Neuroscience. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 7:13-19, 1994. 21. Kedar N. Prasad, Sanjay Kumar, Erika Carvalho, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Rita Kumar, Francisco G. La Rosa, Birte B. Larsen, David Ann. Characterization of human and rat immortalized clones of parotid acinar cells with respect to specific proteins and their mRNAs, and receptor-linked adenylate cyclase. In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology 31:767-772, Nov 1995. 22. Frank S. Adams, Francisco G. La Rosa, Sanjay Kumar, Judith Edward-Prasad , Susan Kentroti, Antonia Vernadakis, Curt R Freed, Kedar N. Prasad. Characterization and transplantation of two neuronal cell lines with dopaminergic properties. Neurochemical Research, 21:619-627, 1996. 23. Francisco G. La Rosa, Sanjay Kumar, and Kedar N. Prasad. Increased expression of ubiquitin during adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate-induced differentiation of neuroblastoma cells in culture. Journal of Neurochemistry, 66:1845-1850, 1996. 24. Francisco G. La Rosa, Frank Adams, Gregory E. Krause, Arlen D. Meyers, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Rita Kumar, Curt Freed, Kedar N. Prasad. Inhibition of SV40 large T-antigen production and cell proliferation after transplantation of immortalized cells. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, (Abstract) April 1996. 25. Francisco G. La Rosa, Sanjay Kumar, and Kedar N. Prasad. Increased expression of ubiquitin during adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate-induced differentiation of neuroblastoma cells in culture. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, (Abstract) April 1996. 26. Francisco G. La Rosa, Susan H. Clarke, and Jerry Lefkowitz. Brodifacoum intoxication with marihuana smoking. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 121: 67-69, 1997. 27. Francisco G. La Rosa, Frank Adams, Gregory E. Krause, Arlen D. Meyers, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Rita Kumar, Curt R. Freed, Kedar N. Prasad. Inhibition of proliferation and expression of T-antigen in SV40 large T-antigen gene-induced immortalized cells following transplantation. Cancer Letters, 113: 55-60, 1997. 28. Gregory E. Krause, Francisco G. La Rosa, Arlen D. Meyers, Rita Kumar, Kedar N. Prasad. Transplantation of immortalized, non-tumorigenic parotid acinar cells into the allogeneic rat parotid gland and oral submucosa. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology & Medicine. 212(2):160-4, 1996. 29. Francisco G. La Rosa and Samia Nawaz. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Intramammary Lymph Nodes in an HIV-1 Positive Patient. A Case Report. Acta Cytologica, 41(3):849-851, 1997. 30. Susan A. Davidson, Joyce Gottesfeld, Francisco G. La Rosa. Molar pregnancy in a 60-year-old woman. International Journal of Gynaecology & Obstetrics. 56(1):53-5, 1997 Jan. 31. Wilbur A. Franklin, Adi F. Gazdar, Jerry Haney, Ignacia I. Wistuba, Francisco G. La Rosa, Tim Kennedy, Donald M. Ritchey, and York E. Miller. Widely dispersed p53 mutation in respiratory epithelium. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 100(8):2133-2137, 1997. 32. Edward D. Clarkson, Francisco G. La Rosa, Judith Edwards-Prasad, David A. Weiland, Samir E. Witta, Curt R. Freed, and Kedar N. Prasad. Improvement of neurological deficits in 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats after transplantation with allogeneic simian virus 40 large tumor antigen gene-induced immortalized dopamine cells. Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences USA, 95:1265-1270, 1998. 33. Edward D. Clarkson, Francisco G. La Rosa, Judith Edwards-Prasad, Sanjay Kumar, Arun Kumar, William Cole, Curt R. Freed, Kedar N. Prasad. Brain contains inhibiting factors specific to the large T-antigen gene. Cancer Letters, 122:31-36, 1998. 34. Kedar N. Prasad, Francisco G. La Rosa, and Judith E. Prasad. Prostaglandins act as neurotoxins for differentiated neuroblastoma cells in culture and increase levels of ubiquitin and -amyloid. In Vitro Cell Development Biology, 34:265-274, 1998. 35. Kedar N. Prasad, Edward D. Clarkson, Francisco G. La Rosa, Judith E. Prasad and Curt R. Freed. Efficacy of grafted immortalized dopamine neurons in an animal model of Parkinsonism: A review. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 65:1-9, 1998. 36. Kedar N. Prasad, Alicia R. Hovland, Francisco G. La Rosa, and Peter G. Hovland. Prostaglandins as putative neurotoxins in Alzheimer’s disease. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 219:120-125, 1998. 37. Alicia R. Hovland, Francisco G. La Rosa, Peter G. Hovland, William C. Cole, Arun Kumar, Judith E. Prasad, Kedar N. Prasad. Cyclosporin A regulates the level of cyclophilin A in neuroblastoma cells in culture. Neurochemistry International 35:229-235, 1999. 38. Arun Kumar, Francisco G. La Rosa, Alicia Rudie Hovland, William C. Cole, Judith Edwards-Prasad, and Kedar Prasad. Adenosine 3’, 5’- cyclic monophosphate increases processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to -amyloid in neuroblastoma cells without changing APP levels or expression of APP nRNA. Neurochemical Research 24:1209-1215, 1999. 39. Arun Kumar, Alicia R. Hovland, Francisco G. La Rosa, William C. Cole, Judith Edwards-Prasad, and Kedar Prasad. Relative sensitivity of undifferentiated and cyclic adenosine 3’, 5’-monophosphate-induced differentiated neuroblastoma cells to cyclosporine A: potential role of -amyloid and ubiquitin in neurotoxicity. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Animal 36:81-87, February 2000. 40. Campbell A, Kumar A, La Rosa FG, Prasad KN, Bondy SC. Aluminum increases levels of beta-amyloid and ubiquitin in neuroblastoma but not in glioma cells. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 2000 Apr;223(4):397-402. 41. Baruah, MKR, Jayaram N, Prasad SR, Bedi S, Johnson JM, La Rosa FG. Telepathology in India. Indian J. Pathol. Microbiol. 44(3): 381-383, 2001. 42. Baruah MK, La Rosa FG. Optimal imaging in static telepathology. Indian J Pathol Microbiol. Jul; 45(3):367-70, 2002 43. Xavier AC, Marshall C, La Rosa FG, Costa LJ, Drabkin H, Crawford ED. Woman with a papillary pulmonary lesion and a complex renal cyst. Oncology 2006 Oct; 20(11):1437-9, 1443. 44. Flaig T, Crawford ED, Kavanagh B, Lucia S, La Rosa F, Barqawi A, Crighton F, Glodé LM. Prostate cancer in a man with multiple previous cancers. Oncology 2007 Apr; 21(5):611-4. 45. Thompson IM, Lucia MS, Redman MW, Darke A, La Rosa FG, Parnes HL, Lippman SM, Coltman CA. Finasteride decreases the risk of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia. J Urol. 2007 Jul; 178(1):107-9; discussion 110. Epub 2007 May 11 46. Lucia MS, Epstein JI, Goodman PJ, Darke AK, Reuter VE, Civantos F, Tangen CM, Parnes HL, Lippman SM, La Rosa FG, Kattan MW, Crawford ED, Ford LG, Coltman CA Jr, Thompson IM. Finasteride and high-grade prostate cancer in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007 Sep 19;99(18):1375-83 47. La Rosa FG, Flaig TW, Wilson S, Crawford ED, Kim FJ. Sarcoidosis in a man with renal cell carcinoma. Oncology Nov; 21(13):1593-96, 2007. 48. Lucia MS, Darke AK, Goodman PJ, La Rosa FG, Parnes HL, Ford LG, Coltman CA Jr, Thompson IM. Pathologic characteristics of cancers detected in The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial: implications for prostate cancer detection and chemoprevention. Cancer Prev Res 1(3):167-73. Epub 2008 May 18. 49. Flaig TW, Kim FJ, La Rosa FG, Breaker K, Schoen J, Russ PD. Colonic pneumatosis and intestinal perforations with sunitinib treatment for renal cell carcinoma. Invest New Drugs. 2009 Feb;27(1):83-7 50. Flaig T, La Rosa FG, McKinney K, Maroni P, Wilson S. A Man With Changes in the Urinary Bladder: Benign Metaplasia or Adenocarcinoma? Oncology. SecOp Vol. 23 No. 2, February 18, 2009 51. Siomos VJ, La Rosa FG, Flaig TW, Kondo KL, Mitchell JD, Wilson S, Barqawi Ab. Recurrent Urothelial Carcinoma With Pulmonary Metastasis. Oncology. SecOp Vol. 23 No. 14, December, 2009 52. Smith M, Lucia MS, Werahera PN, La Rosa FG. Carcinoid Tumor of the Verumontanum (colliculus seminalis) of the Prostatic Urethra with a Coexisting Prostatic Adenocarcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Journal of Medical Case Reports 4:16, 2010 53. Flaig TW, Kondo KL, La Rosa FG, Kavanagh B, Crawford ED. A young woman with multiple kidney lesions. Oncology (Williston Park). 2010 Mar;24(3):282-6. 54. David Howard, Francisco G. La Rosa, Stephen Huang, Domenico Salvatore,Michelle Mulcahey, Jennifer Sang-Lee, Michael Wachs, and Joshua P. Klopper. Consumptive Hypothyroidism Resulting from Hepatic Vascular Tumors in an Athyreotic Adult. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, July 2011, 96(7):1966–70 55. Iczkowski, K.A., Torkko, K.C., Kotnis, G.R., Wilson, R.S., Huang, W., Wheeler, T.M., Abeyta, A.M., La Rosa, F.G., Cook, S., Werahera, P.N., Lucia, M.S. Digital quantification of five high-grade prostate cancer patterns, including the cribriform pattern, and their association with adverse outcome. American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2011 Jul;136(1):98-107. 56. Werahera PN, Glode LM, La Rosa FG, Lucia MS, Crawford ED, Easterday K, Sullivan HT, Sidhu RS, Genova E, Hedlund T. Proliferative tumor doubling times of prostatic carcinoma. Prostate Cancer. 2011; 2011:301850. Epub 2011. 57. Barqawi AB, Turcanu R, Gamito EJ, Lucia SM, O'Donnell CI, Crawford ED, La Rosa DD, La Rosa FG. The value of second-opinion pathology diagnoses on prostate biopsies from patients referred for management of prostate cancer. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2011 Jun 20;4(5):468-75. 58. Elaine T. Lam, Francisco G. La Rosa, Thomas Suby-Long, L. Michael Glodé, Shandra Wilson, Kimi L. Kondo, Thomas W. Flaig, A Rare Case of Metastatic Renal Epithelioid Angiomyolipoma. Oncology 2011 Aug;25(9):832-8 59. Werahera PN, Sullivan K, La Rosa FG, Kim FJ, Lucia MS, O’Donnell C, Sidhu RS, Sullivan HT, Schulte B, Crawford ED. Optimization of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis by Increasing the Number of Core Biopsies Based on Gland Volume. Int J Clin Exp Pathol 2012; 5(9):892-9. 60. E. David Crawford, Kyle O. Rove, Al B. Barqawi, Paul D. Maroni, Priya N. Werahera, Craig A. Baer, Hari K. Koul, Cory A. Rove, M. Scott Lucia, Francisco G. La Rosa. Clinical-Pathologic Correlation between Transperineal Mapping Biopsies of the Prostate and 3-Dimensional Reconstruction of Prostatectomy Specimens. Prostate. 2013 May;73(7):778-87. 61. Xiaoping Yang, Lih-Jen Su, Andrew Thorburn, Arthur E. Frankel, Yuan Li, Francisco G. La Rosa, Elizabeth Kessler, Jingping Shen, Chuan-Yuan Li, Marileila Varella-Garcia1, L. Michael Glodé1, Thomas W. Flaig. Diphtheria Toxin-Epidermal Growth Factor Fusion Protein DAB389EGF for the treatment of urinary bladder cancer. Clinical Cancer Research Nov 21 2012. 62. Phillips JM, Catarinicchia S, La Rosa FG, Maroni P. Technical Learning Points for Robotic Prostatectomy: Video Assessment of Positive Margins at the Prostate Base in Two Cases. Journal of Endourology Part B, Videourology. November 2012, 26:6 http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/vid.2012.0025?journalCode=vid 63. Kathryn Breaker, Mary Naam, Francisco G. La Rosa, Insley Puma Flaig, Thomas W. Flaig. Skin Cancer Associated with the use of Sorafenib and Sunitinib for Renal Cell Carcinoma. Dermatol Surg. 2013 Jul; 39(7):981-7. 64. Samantha E. Hohensee MD, Francisco G. La Rosa MD, Thomas Suby-Long MD, Shandra Wilson MD, M. Scott Lucia MD, Kenneth A. Iczkowski MD. Renal Epithelioid Angiomyolipoma with Negative Pre-melanosomal Marker Immunoprofile. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2013, 7:118 65. Yang X, La Rosa FG, Genova EE, Huber K, Schaack J, et al. (2013) Simultaneous Activation of Kras and Inactivation of p53 Induces Soft Tissue Sarcoma and Bladder Urothelial Hyperplasia. PLoS One. 2013 Sep 18;8(9):e74809 66. Werahera PN, Crawford ED, La Rosa FG, Torkko KC, Schulte B, Sullivan HT, van Bokhoven A, Lucia MS, Kim FJ. . Anterior tumors of the prostate: diagnosis and significance. Can J Urol. 2013 Oct; 20(5):6897-906. 67. Lam ET, Kessler ER, Flaig TW, La Rosa FG. Collision renal cell papillary and medullary carcinoma in a 66-year-old man. Oncology 2013 Sep; 27(9):893, 896, 898. 68. Rezaeilouyeh H, Mahoor MH, La Rosa FG, Zhang JJ. Prostate cancer detection and Gleason grading of histological images using shearlet transform. 47th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. November 3-6, 2013, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 69. Iczkowski KA, La Rosa FG. Gleason 6 cancer is still cancer. Oncology 2014 Jan; 28(1):22, 24, 29. 70. La Rosa FG, Jones C, Arangua P, Crawford ED, Van Neste L. Finding Occult Prostatic Cancer: The Value of Transperineal Mapping Biopsies and Epigenetic Assays. The Journal of Oncopathology, 2:1, 27-32(6), March 2014. 71. Da Silva RD, Molina WR, Gustafson D, Nogueira L, Tayal S, La Rosa FG, Kim FJ. Large Renal Mass: A Challenge for the Urologist. Oncology, 28:4, 320, 324, April, 2014 72. E. David Crawford, Kyle O. Rove, Nelson N. Stone, Scott Lucia, Al B. Barqawi and Francisco G. La Rosa. Moving Forward the State of the Art in Prostate Cancer Treatment: Targeted Focal Therapy. Urology Practice, 2014, 1:3, 156 - 164 73. Werahera PN, Jasion EA, Crawford ED, La Rosa FG, Lucia MS, van Bokhoven A, Sullivan HT, Port JD, Maroni PD, Daily JW. Systematic diagnosis of prostate cancer using an optical biopsy needle adjunct with fluorescence spectroscopy. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014. Aug 2014, 2165-8 74. Rezaeilouyeh H, Mahoor MH, Zhang JJ, La Rosa FG, Chang S, Werahera PN. Diagnosis of prostatic Carcinoma on multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging using shearlet transform. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014 Aug;2014: pp: 6442-5. PubMed PMID: 25571471 75. Virginia M. Knez, Willis Barrow, M. Scott Lucia, Shandra Wilson and Francisco G. La Rosa. Clear Cell Urothelial Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Journal of Medical Case Reports August 2014, 8:275 76. Iczkowski KA, Egevad L, Ma J, Harding-Jackson N, Algaba F, Billis A, Camparo P, Cheng L, Clouston D, Comperat EM, Datta MW, Evans AG, Griffiths DF, Guo CC, Hailemariam S, Huang W, Humphrey PA, Jiang Z, Kahane H, Kristiansen G, La Rosa FG, Lopez-Beltran A, MacLennan GT, Magi-Galluzzi C, Merrimen J, Montironi R, Osunkoya AO, Picken MM, Rao N, Shah RB, Shanks JH, Shen SS, Tawfik OW, True LD, Van der Kwast T, Varma M, Wheeler TM, Zynger DL, Sahr N, Bostwick DG. Intraductal carcinoma of the prostate: interobserver reproducibility survey of 39 urologic pathologists. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2014 Dec;18 (6):333-42. 77. Pokharel SS, Patel NU, Garg K, La Rosa FG, Arangua P, Jones C, Crawford ED. Multi-parametric MRI findings of transitional zone prostate cancers: correlation with 3-dimensional transperineal mapping biopsy. Abdominal Imaging: Volume 40, Issue 1 (2015), Page 143-150 78. Lambert JR, Whitson RJ, Iczkowski KA, La Rosa FG, Smith ML, Wilson RS, Smith EE, Torkko KC, Gari HH, Lucia MS. Reduced expression of GDF-15 is associated with atrophic inflammatory lesions of the prostate. Prostate. 2015 Feb 15;75(3):255-65. 79. Olatunji B. Alese, Bassel F. El-Rayes, Gabriel Sica, Guojing Zhang, Dianne Alexis, Francisco G. La Rosa, Marileila Varella-Garcia, Zhengjia Chen, Michael R. Rossi, Nazim V. Adsay, Fadlo R. Khuri and Taofeek K. Owonikoko. Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene alteration in signet ring cell carcinoma of the gastrointestinal tract. Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology, March 2015 vol. 7 no. 2 56-62 80. Kessler ER, Amini A, Wilson SS, Anp-C KB, Raben D, La Rosa FG, Crawford ED. Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder. Oncology (Williston Park). 2015 Jun 15;29(6) 81. Werahera PN, Jasion EA, Crawford ED, Lucia MS, van Bokhoven A, Sullivan HT, Kim FJ, Maroni PD, Port JD, Daily JW, La Rosa FG. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy can differentiate high grade and low grade prostatic carcinoma. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug; 2016:5148-5151. PMID: 28325017 82. Richmond AM, La Rosa FG, Said S. Granular cell tumor presenting in the scrotum of a pediatric patient: a case report and review of the literature. J Med Case Rep. 2016 Jun 4;10(1):161. PMID: 27259474 83. Bradford J. Siegele, Kenneth A. Iczkowski, Francisco G. La Rosa. Carcinosarcoma of the Prostate in a Patient with Previous Prostatic Adenocarcinoma, status post Brachytherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology 2016; 9(7):7724-7732. 84. E David Crawford, Neal Shore, Matthew Cooperberg, Marc Dall'Era, Francisco G La Rosa. Clinical Considerations after a Negative Prostate Biopsy. J Prostate Cancer. 2017; 2:114. 85. Lhungay TP, Colvin A, Warncke J, Somerset H, Wilson SS, La Rosa FG. Seventy-Year-Old Man With Large Bladder Mass: Diagnostic and Clinical Challenges of an Uncommon Neoplasm. Oncology (Williston Park). 2017 Mar 15;31(3):210-2, 218-20. PMID: 28299758 86. Yang X, Su L-J, La Rosa, FG, Smith EE, Schlaepfer IR, Cho SK, Kavanagh B, Park W and Flaig TW. The Antineoplastic Activity of Photothermal Ablative Therapy with Targeted Gold Nanorods in an Orthotopic Urinary Bladder Cancer Model. Bladder Cancer. 2017 Jul 27;3(3):201-210. PMID: 28824948 87. Flaig TW, Salzmann-Sullivan M, Su LJ, Zhang Z, Joshi M, Gijón MA, Kim J, Arcaroli JJ, Van Bokhoven A, Lucia MS, La Rosa FG, Schlaepfer IR. Lipid catabolism inhibition sensitizes prostate cancer cells to antiandrogen blockade. Oncotarget. 2017 Apr 21. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.17359. PMID: 28915573 88. E. David Crawford, Paul Arangua, John Hoenemeyer, Francisco G. La Rosa, Adrie van Bokhoven, M. Scott Lucia, Wendy Poage, and Priya N. Werahera. Evaluation of prostate cancer risk in men with PSA < 1.5. Whitney N. Stanton, Journal of Clinical Oncology 2018 36:6_suppl, 64-64 89. Tyler P. Robin, Paul D. Maroni, Bennett B. Chin, Francisco G. La Rosa, Brandon Bernard, Thomas J. Pugh. Post-Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy: Patient Selection, Timing, Imaging, and Therapy Intensification. Oncology (Williston Park). 2018 Jul 15;32(7):360-3, 369, CV3 90. David J. Orlicky, Andrew E. Libby, Elise S. Bales, Rachel H. McMahan, Jenifer Monks, Francisco G. La Rosa, James, L. McManaman. Perilipin‐2 promotes obesity and progressive fatty liver disease in mice through mechanistically distinct hepatocyte and extra‐hepatocyte actions. J Physiol 00.0 (2018) pp 1–20 91. Stone NN, Crawford ED, Skouteris VM, Arangua P, Metsinis PM, Lucia MS, La Rosa FG, Werahera PN. The ratio of the number of biopsy specimens to prostate volume (biopsy density) >1.5 improves the prostate cancer detection rate in men undergoing transperineal biopsy of the prostate. J Urol. 202(2) 264-261 August 2019. 92. Stone NN, Crawford ED, Skouteris VM, Arangua P, Metsinis PM, Lucia MS, La Rosa FG, Werahera PN. Reply by Authors. J Urol. 202(2):271 August 2019. 93. Skouteris VM, Stone NN, Werahera PN, Metsinis MP, Dounis A, Lucia MS, La Rosa FG, Crawford ED. Comparison of the results and complications for transrectal ultrasound guided versus transperineal mapping biopsy of the prostate. Hellenic Urology 2019, 31(2): 28-34 94. M Gigli, M Merlo, S Graw, G Barbati, T Rowland, D Slavov, D Stolfo, ME Sweet, MD Ferro, A Altinier, F Ramani1, F Brun, A Cocciolo, I Puggia, G Morea, WJ McKenna, FG La Rosa, MRG Taylor, G Sinagra, L Mestroni. Genetic Risks for Arrhythmia Phenotypes in Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Sep 17;74(11):1480-1490. 95. Stanton WN, Crawford ED, Arangua PB, La Rosa FG, van Bokhoven A, Lucia MS, Poage WL, Partin A, Maroni P, Werahera PN. Assessment of High-Grade Prostate Cancer Risk Using Prostate Cancer Biomarkers. The Canadian Journal of Urology; 27(1) 10080-85; February 2020. PMID 32065862 96. Hall K, Moore BE, Higuchi TT, Rosa FG. Plexiform neurofibromas with diffuse ganglioneuromatosis of the urinary bladder, Human Pathology: Case Reports, Volume 24, June 2021, 200485. 97. Duarte C, Gilbert DM, Sheridan AD, La Rosa FG, McCarter M, Cost NG, Emmons S, Lam ET. Spontaneous regression of an extragonadal seminomatous germ cell tumor. Cancer Treat Res Commun. 2021 Apr 24;28:100383. doi: 10.1016/j.ctarc.2021.100383. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33992855. 98. Green DB, La Rosa FG, Craig PG, Khani F, Lam ET. Metastatic Mature Teratoma and Growing Teratoma Syndrome in Patients with Testicular Non-Seminomatous Germ Cell Tumors.Korean J Radiol. 2021 Oct;22(10):1650-1657. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2020.1391. Epub 2021 Jul 26. PMID: 34402242 99. Holers VM, La Rosa FG, Banda NK. A Potential New Mouse Model of Axial Spondyloarthritis Involving the Complement System. Immune Netw. 2021 Dec;21(6):e45. pISSN 1598-2629·eISSN 2092-6685 PMID: 35036032 100. Crawford ED, Martin M, Phillips CD, Stanton WN, van Bokhoven A, Lucia MS, Arangua P, La Rosa FG, Grasmick z, Hoyer G, Mouraviev V, Stone NN, Terlecki R, Werahera PN. Microbiomes in Post-DRE Urine Samples Are Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk. Submitted to the J. of Urology