Thirdly, Pan et al. found no association between p16 expression and prognosis in early Ta–T1 stage (stage I) bladder cancer, possibly because of the omission of the study by Krüger et al. [5], which explored the significance of p16 as an independent tumor predictive factor for the development of T1 bladder cancer, and demonstrated the important clinical value of low p16 expression in the early diagnosis and prognosis of patients with early-stage bladder cancer. Here, CDKN2A is linked to urinary bladder cancer.