Category: Imaging & mpMRI

You lie calmly on your back in the tunnel (bore) of a large machine. You can’t feel it, but you are now in an invisible magnetic field. After a while, your scanning session is done. Abracadabra! Presto! Such is the magic of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that your doctor can examine and analyze your gland keep reading

Artificial Intelligence is transforming prostate MRI interpretation, making it faster and more precise. See how this breakthrough technology is elevating prostate health diagnostics. keep reading

A wise art teacher once told her class, “The hardest part of any work of art is deciding when it’s done.” The problem is, how to make that decision? When the artist stands back to see if any finishing touches are needed, it’s a matter of subjective opinion. No two artists will judge completion the keep reading

No one is perfect, including radiologists who read and interpret multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) prostate scans. However, some are better than others. Studies show that experienced readers are generally more accurate than less experienced readers. In fact, based on the number of MRIs reviewed over time as well as continuing education (conferences, training workshops, classes, etc.), keep reading

These days it seems like the pace of living is continually ramping up. As one blogger expresses, “We live in a culture of hurry, which assumes that doing something more quickly is always better than doing it more slowly. At the root of that is a veneration of productivity: the more quickly you can do keep reading

If you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, you want to know, with as much accuracy as possible PSA and its variants - determined by blood test, Gleason score/Gleason Grade Group - determined by biopsy, and clinical stage - determined the old-fashioned way by combination of digital rectal exam or DRE, biopsy, inadequate information from ultrasound, and educated guess... keep reading

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said the 20th century philosopher George Santayana. Though he wasn’t referring family heredity, we might rephrase his words as follows: Those who ignore a family history of cancer are condemned to a higher risk of developing it. That’s because cancer has many genetic properties keep reading

“We got it all and you’ll never have to worry about prostate cancer again.” Those are the sweetest words for patients with prostate cancer (PCa) who decide to have a radical prostatectomy (RP), meaning surgical removal of the entire gland. “Never again” is the hope and the expectation, and most of the time that prediction keep reading

Ongoing research since we posted the blog below continues to support the need for more diagnostic indicators before performing repeat biopsy after an initial negative biopsy. Repeat biopsies increase the risk of side effects, with a “3.9-fold increase in serious infectious complications and a 16.1-fold increase in noninfectious urological complications…” keep reading

There used to be an off-price clothing store called Syms, described by one journalist as “unlike any department store I’ve seen before or since.” If you were a savvy shopper, Syms was the place for you. Their slogan, “An educated consumer is our best customer,” was one of the greatest in retail history! Today’s prostate keep reading