Re: color doppler ultrasound to detect prostate cancer?




Sorry ugg...but I have to agree with Jason whole heartedly. I'm not an

expert on all the scanning techniques for internal organs, but I know
of
nothing to date that will identify cancer tissue (like you can by
looking at
it under a microscope). So where are you coming from when you say that

"science and computers and new technology have made that almost
obselete".

Please explain and give some examples if you can...Pete


What I am saying is that there are further steps you can take before
doing a biopsy, or many other invasive procedures. Virtual Colonoscopy
is just one example where the detection rates are as good or better
than a regular colonoscopy. Reference The National Cancer Institute
article in the New England Journal of Medicine, December 4, 2003.
"Summary, In a study of people at average risk for colorectal cancer,
a screening technique known as virtual colonoscopy was just as accurate
as traditional colonoscopy at detecting signs of colon or rectal
cancer, and was less invasive." As far as the prostate, the Prostate
Cancer Research Institute (PCRI) at UCSF has the noninvasive MSRI which
looks at the prostate in mm slices physically and then with
spectroscopic imaging down to the molecular level with "demonstrated
high specificity in identifying cancer". In my own opinion, I would
want to know if there was anything to biopsy and if there was then
exactly where to take the biopsy. Again, in my own opinion, I would
use the 21st Century technology before having any invasive tests in the
preliminary stages. The final confirmation of any diagnosis would have
to be tissue.

.

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