Future of Prostate Cancer Testing
Currently, doctors say there is no easy, comfortable, reliable way to test and diagnosis prostate cancer. Doctors would like to improve testing and make information about it more widespread.
Recently, "researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, University of California San Francisco, and a handful of institutions around the country are making headway with a new advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging that could provide precise, accurate and easy-to-read results without painful or uncomfortable probing."
More than 230,000 new cases of prostate cancer were detected in 2004, and nearly 30,000 men died of the disease that year, according to the National Cancer Society. Therefore, testing is important to catch the disease in its early stages.
At present, these next generatoion "high field" MRI scanners are too expensive to use on a large scale, and have not yet been medically approved, but atleast it signifies that the medical field is trying to make diagnosis and testing better in the future.
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06.19.2006.
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