CHICAGO — Transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy poorly detects and rules out clinically significantprostate cancer, whereas multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MP-MRI) can identify 27% of men who might safely avoid unnecessary biopsy, a study presented at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting showed.1
"The current diagnosis pathway can result in various errors: clinically indolent cancers are identified by chance; clinically significant lesions are missed; important cancers are incorrectly classified as unimportant; and men undergo whole-gland treatment, which carries harm," said co-investigator and presenter Hashim Ahmed, PhD, an MRC clinician scientist at University College London Hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Because MP-MRI as a triage test might allow men to avoid unnecessary TRUS-biopsy, since men with an elevated PSA do not have clinically significant prostate cancer, researchers evaluated the accuracy of MP-MRI followed by TRUS-biopsy vs template prostate mapping biopsy (TPM-biopsy) as an accurate reference test.
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