We also thank Edanz (https://jp.edanz.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript. The authors wish to thank the patients and their families for participating in this study, as well as the staff for supporting this study. The authors acknowledge the assistance of the following people: Toshihide Hosomi, Masafumi Tsuruta, Naoki Hayata, Mizuho Akahane, Takashi Matsuoka, Jin Kono, and Yuki Kita, Department of Urology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine; Yuto Hattori, Yohei Abe, Akihiko Nagoshi, Tasuku Fujiwara, Takanari Kambe, Yuta Mine, Hiroki Hagimoto, Shiori Murata, Hidetoshi Kokubun, Naofumi Tsutsumi, Toshinari Yamasaki, and Mutsushi Kawakita, Department of Urology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital; Naoto Takaoka, Hiroki Watanabe, Yurina Funahashi, Maki Fujiwara, Hiroaki Kawanishi, and Kazuhiro Okumura, Department of Urology, Tenri Yorozu Hospital; Masatoshi Kumagai, Yusuke Shiraishi, Masakatsu Ueda, Masaaki Imamura, and Koji Yoshimura, Department of Urology Shizuoka General Hospital; Tomoya Okuno, Takahiro Kirisawa, and Ayumu Matsuda, Department of Urology, National Cancer Center Hospital; Kyohei Sugiyama and Koji Inoue, Department of Urology, Kurashiki Central Hospital; Atsushi Igarashi, Hiromasa Araki, Takayoshi Miura, Yu Miyazaki, Mutsuki Mishina, and Hiroshi Okuno, Department of Urology, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center; Shinya Abe, Kazuma Hiramatsu, Noriyuki Makita, and Yuki Kamiyama, Department of Urology, Kyoto City Hospital; Yosuke Shimizu, Sojun Kanamaru, Department of Urology, Kobe City Nishi-Kobe Medical Center; Tatsuya Hazama, Yuta Yamada, Toshifumi Takahashi, Hideto Ota, Masakazu Nakashima, Masahiro Tamaki, and Noriyuki Ito, Department of Urology, Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center; Ken Maekawa, Masakatsu Hirano, Takehiro Takahashi, and Hiroyuki Onishi, Department of Urology, Japanese Red Cross Osaka Hospital; Kazunari Tsuchihashi and Satoshi Ishitoya, Department of Urology, Japanese Red Cross Otsu Hospital; Shuhei Koike, Ryosuke Ikeuchi. Kosuke Nishizaki, Takeshi Soda, and Takuya Okada, Department of Urology, Kitano Hospital; Kodai Hattahara, and Koji Nishizawa, Department of Urology, Shiga General Hospital; Takaaki Takuma, Kazuki Kokura, Yuichi Uemura, and Jun Watanabe, Department of Urology, Toyooka Hospital; Daisuke Takahashi, Kana Kohashiguchi, Takeru Fujimoto, and Hiroshi Iwamura, Department of Urology, Himeji Medical Center; Kosuke Ogawa, Suguru Ito, Yoshiyuki Okada, and Kazutoshi Okubo, Department of Urology, Kyoto Katsura Hospital; Ryosuke Suzuki and Naoki Kohei, Department of Urology, Numazu City Hospital; Shotaro Hatano, and Shuhei Goto, Department of Urology, Shimada General Medical Center; Kanji Nagahama, Department of Urology, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital; Tomomi Kamba, Department of Urology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University; Motohiro Taguchi and Shingo Yamamoto, Department of Urology, Hyogo Medical University; Atsushi Koizumi, and Tomonori Habuchi, Department of Urology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine; Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Department of Urology, University of Tsukuba; Koji Yamasaki and Toshiyuki Kamoto, Department of Urology, Miyazaki University; We also appreciate all members of the Daimonji Clinical Application Database (Dai-CAD).