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Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) over diagnosis?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Dec 14, 2023 | Replies (32)
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@ozelli

What is an MPMRI?

The 1.5T MRI should be accurate in identifying the troublesome spot. Probably not going to tell you much more than that.

I think you are trying to minimize the results (very much like I did). You don't mention your age. It is a pretty important variable that matters.

No need to rush to treatment but ....

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spino | @spino | Dec 3, 2023

What is an MPMRI?
multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging, sometimes shown as mpMRI or MP-MRI.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2747475
[This is a link to a fulltext article from 2019 that supports the use of mpMRI to improve diagnosis.] In 2022, my transperineal biopsy was actually "guided by" an mpMRI conducted a day or two earlier using ultrasound. This resulted in very successful targeting of the biopsies that was confirmed by the pathology after the radical prostatectomy a month later.

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