MRI combo spots prostate cancer treatment failure
Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two imaging modalities used in combination -- dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI)-MRI -- can accurately spot residual or recurrent prostate cancer in patients treated with a fairly new treatment called high-intensity focused ultrasonic ablation, a new study shows.
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