“They’re pretty good about ruling out prostate cancer,” he says. Biomarker tests may show that you don’t need the next step: a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. The specialized MRI lets doctors ...

Former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of an aggressive, stage-4 prostate cancer has reignited a long-simmering medical ...

When I learned that former President Joe Biden had not undergone prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening since 2014—and was later diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer—I knew there would be ...

Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme ...

With Biden's prostate cancer in the news, men may be wondering whether and at what age to be screened. Advice about the value ...

You usually have an mpMRI scan if doctors suspect that you have prostate cancer. It is important to know ... your back on a couch that can slide into the MRI machine. You may have an injection of a ...

Microultrasonography for prostate biopsy detected clinically significant cancer at rates comparable to MRI-guided approaches ... microultrasonography with no contrast requirement, thereby reducing ...

Ferumoxtran is an MRI Contrast Agent that may be used to detect lymph node metastases as small as 2 mm in prostate cancer patients. Sanochemia has secured exclusive global commercialization rights ...

The cost of using ultrasounds tech costs around 10% of MRI scanning, which means doctors can now better guide prostate biopsies and focal therapy – which destroys cancer cells, the research team ...

In contrast, the MRI-targeted biopsy group underwent a biopsy only if suspicious lesions were detected on MRI. The primary outcome was the detection of clinically insignificant prostate cancer (ISUP ...