A new three-phase screening protocol that incorporates a PSA test, a four-kallikrein panel, and an MRI scan appears to improve the prostate cancer detection rate among men invited to participate in a ...

A single round of prostate cancer screening that included a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a kallikrein panel, and an MRI detected one additional high-grade cancer per 196 men and one low-grade ...

Confirmatory or systematic prostate biopsies may be unnecessary for men considering active surveillance for prostate cancer who have negative findings on multiparametric MRI scans. Multiparametric MRI ...

International experts have recommended quick and targeted MRI scans for prostate cancer screening. Some 21 urologists, radiologists and pathologists from Europe and the US agreed an "expert consensus ...

Protocol-directed prostate cancer active surveillance offers acceptable oncologic safety. Protocol-directed active surveillance of localized prostate cancer reduces unnecessary treatment of men ...

A nationwide survey of prostate MRI practices in the UK revealed the universal adoption of pre-biopsy MRI across all NHS trusts, with 73.1% using multiparametric MRI protocols. However, significant ...

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Half of men with low-risk prostate cancer remained free from progression or treatment 10 years after diagnosis when followed in a protocol-directed active surveillance program. At 10 years, 43% of ...

A large randomized trial shows that a new three-step prostate cancer screening method can find a considerable number of aggressive cancers. Population-level screening programs have not been launched ...

An artificial intelligence system slightly outperformed radiologists using PI-RADS at detecting clinically significant prostate cancer. A trained artificial intelligence (AI) system discriminated ...