Prostate problem probed

15/02/10

Pinpointing prostate problems – The chemical cousin of magnetic resonance imaging, MR spectroscopy, could be used to pinpoint the exact location of prostate cancers and to determine the aggressiveness of a tumour without major surgical intervention, according to research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
“Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy which can analyse the biochemistry rather than the physical structure of tissues could give oncologists a better way to home in on prostate cancers at the early stages of growth and so ultimately improve treatment success rates,” team leader Leo Cheng of Harvard U told me.
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