Prostate scan breakthrough could prevent thousands of cancer deaths every year, landmark study finds - The Telegraph - February 11, 2021

[cujoe]

From the article:

"Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a 15-minute MRI scan, known as a Prostagram, which can detect the disease early - much like a female mammogram."

. . .

"This is the first time that any scan has been accurate enough to be considered for use as a prostate cancer screening test."

The Telegraph article can be found here:

yahoo.com/news/prostate-sca...

And from the full research paper Conclusion in JAMAoncology:

"This study suggests that when screening the general population for prostate cancer, MRI using a score of 4 or 5 to define a positive test result, compared with PSA testing alone at a level of 3 ng/mL or higher, might lead to more men being diagnosed with clinically significant cancer, without increasing the number of men advised to undergo biopsy or overdiagnosed with clinically insignificant cancer. The findings also suggest that ultrasonography is unlikely to have better performance characteristics compared with PSA testing alone."

The research paper in JAMAoncology (full free access) is here:

jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...

Another potential tool for the PCa diagnostic toolbox.

Stay Well - k9

[cujoe]

Agree on both counts. Altho' in my family cancer equity has been around along time. If you live long enough we all get to have 2 x flavors regardless of sex.

Catch any fish today?

[NPfisherman]

Another solid find....thanks for posting...some men have had negative biopsy results and still had cancer with metastases.... an improved MRI scan like this will save many men annually and do away with unnecessary biopsies... it will also speed up the treatment plan since a biopsy can take weeks to schedule and an MRI can be done in days...

Fish

[NPfisherman]

We lag behind because of better funding for BCa... The US govt. puts about an extra 60 million into breast cancer funding over PCa funding ... We are now getting their drugs that they have had for a while... PARP inhibitors, estrogen patches.... We can hope for equality to happen some day... < wicked grin >. And how is the fishing going??

Fish

[NPfisherman]

That's great.... In a few years, I will join the ranks of "Snow birds" and buy a place in Florida for the winter months...the wife and I plan on retiring within 2 years or so... looking forward to doing some surf fishing, enjoying the sun, and skipping the snow shoveling...good luck...

Fish

[cujoe]

(NP) fisherman's Paradise?!