How to quickly diagnose prostate cancer

MRI helps diagnose prostate cancer (prostate cancer) twice as fast, than regular biopsy. Scientists from University College London have proved, that in the diagnosis of prostate cancer do not always need a painful and unsafe biopsy method, every year thousands of men from areas of risk.

The study involved 576 men from 11 British hospitals. After the MRI, doctors were able to go home without a biopsy 27% patients. They spent the rest of the biopsy with much greater accuracy. First the scientists scanned samples of suspicious tissue, and only then held the fence fabrics. As a result,, They identified 97% aggressive tumors, compared with 48%, who is diagnosed by biopsy of the prostate.

Recall, that the start time of prostate cancer treatment is vital. Any delay could be fatal and lead to annual 11300 deaths.

According to experts, many of these deaths could have been prevented by using conventional MRI, which allows you to diagnose much earlier. Also scan will reduce the number of men with benign tumors, diagnosed as cancer.

Study leader Dr Hashim Ahmed believes, that the MRI tests should be accessible to all. He said: "Our study showed, that MRI can reduce overdiagnosis in prostate cancer 5%, as well as prevent unnecessary prostate biopsies every fourth men and increase the diagnosis of aggressive tumors with 48% to 93%.

Angela Kalhejn from a British charity for people with prostate cancer named new discovery the best over the past decade.