Prostate cancer diagnostic pathway: Is a one-stop cognitive MRI targeted biopsy service a realistic goal in everyday practice? A pilot cohort in a tertiary referral centre in the UK.
Edward James BassAlex FreemanCharles JamesonShonit PunwaniCaroline M MooreManit AryaMark EmbertonHashim Uddin AhmedPublished in: BMJ open (2018)
This approach greatly reduces the time to diagnosis and treatment. Detection rates of significant cancer are high. Similar services may be valuable to patients with a potential diagnosis of PCa.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- healthcare
- prostate cancer
- mental health
- papillary thyroid
- radical prostatectomy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- squamous cell
- ultrasound guided
- cancer therapy
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- study protocol
- real time pcr
- cross sectional
- quality improvement
- fine needle aspiration
- computed tomography
- diffusion weighted imaging
- childhood cancer
- randomized controlled trial
- drug delivery
- young adults
- risk assessment
- sensitive detection