Prostate cancer: diagnosis and staging

Prostate cancer: diagnosis and staging.

Prostate cancer represents an increasing health burden. The past 20 years, with the introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), has seen prostate cancer move increasingly from a condition that presented with locally advanced disease or metastases to one that is found upon screening. More is also known about the pathology of pre-malignant lesions. Diagnosis relies on trans-rectal ultrasound...

Saturation Biopsy for Diagnosis and Staging of Prostate Cancer

1. The technology must have final approval from the appropriate government regulatory bodies; 2. The scientific evidence must permit conclusions concerning the effect of the technology on health outcomes; 3. The technology must improve the net health outcome; 4. The technology must be as beneficial as any established alternatives; 5. The improvement must be attainable outside the investigationa...

MRI of prostate cancer: Diagnosis, staging and treatment of prostate cancer

Introduction The clinical problems: Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer and the second most common cause of cancer death in American men. The American cancer society estimates that in 2003, 220,900 new cases for prostate cancer will have been identified [1]. With the increase in the number of older people in the US (the baby-boomers), it is estimated that 450,000 new cases w...

Problems in staging prostate cancer.

S taging is extremely important in assessing mortality and morbidity risk for any cancer. The diagram, table and this discussion are meant to help illustrate and explain some of the difficulties associated with prostate cancer staging. First, clinical staging in the absence of pathology reports of the prostate gland is frequently inaccurate. One study 1 found that 66% of clinical stages were up...

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