Month: July 2026

For decades, the gloved-finger exam was a standard part of every man's annual physical. Now the evidence is catching up with what many doctors suspected: the digital rectal exam misses too much and finds too little. With MRI able to view the entire prostate, major guidelines have quietly pushed the old exam to the bottom of the list. keep reading

Skip the contrast agent, and a prostate MRI gets faster and cheaper, but it loses the one signal that makes cancer impossible to miss: abnormal blood flow. That trade-off is why the third MRI sequence matters, and why a newly approved low-dose contrast agent is worth watching. It offers the same vascular proof with a fraction of the gadolinium. keep reading