A recent study revealed a new approach to detecting prostate cancer using Biparametric MRI, which takes only 15-20 minutes, which means providing half of the time that was taken by the previous multi-standard approach (Multi-Parametric MRI).
Multiple MRIs can be summarized briefly as a way to try to obtain an ideal 3D image for prostate by combining “T2-WEIGHTED” images, “Difussion Weight”, and “Dynamic Contrad” (Dynamic Contrast ” Enhanceed, it includes a stage in which a dye is injected into the patient’s body, while the new approach does not need the injection of the dye.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University College of London, the London University College Hospital and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and its results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the tenth of September, and the Yorik Alrt website was written about.
“The multi -standard magnetic resonance inspection, consisting of 3 part With a character, the presence of cancer in the MRI examination, but this step requires a medical time and presence, and may – in rare cases – cause light side effects. “
MRI distortions that appear in magnetic resonance tests are to take targeted tissue biopsies, improving the detection of cancer.
The natural result of MRI, which appears in about a third of patients, is reassuring and enables men to avoid an unnecessary biopsy.
In the context of comparison between the two approaches, cancer specialists (from 22 hospitals in 12 countries around the world) involved 555 patients – between the ages of 59 and 70 years – for examination in the two ways, to find out if the two -sided magnetic resonance imaging – two parts – is able to detect cancer with the same rate of full -standard magnetic resonance imaging.
All patients underwent a full three -part examination, then the radiologists evaluated the bipolar examination without the dye, and they evaluated the triple examination with the dye separately for each patient, and a biopsy of the prostate was performed when needed to ensure the correctness of the diagnosis.
29% of patients had a dangerous prostate cancer, and it was diagnosed by a shorter standard examination, the same percentage of the tallest three -part examination.