PCa and MRIs

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4970213/Half-of-men-with-prostate-cancer-WRONGLY-given-all-clear.html

The Sun is a rag. When i was a kid living in England we'd get our hand son it for the naked woman pic on page 3 and the sports section. Nevertheless, thought article was worth posting.

" Professor Mark Emberton, from University College London, said: “There is no other organ of the body where we carry out random ’blind’ biopsies without knowing where we are looking.

“At UCLH we have been using MRI, followed by a guided biopsy for several years, but there are only a handful of hospitals in this country which currently do this, and that needs to change.”

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4970213/Half-of-men-with-prostate-cancer-WRONGLY-given-all-clear.html#ixzz2WKuwaEHH"

good article. was looking at your signature, don't you need to change your age? shows you being dx at 40, and operation in 2011, assuming you are 42 now, not 40?

david

Wow--reading this article I was amazed to read that 40,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year and 10,000 die from it...Based on their small population vs ours, it would seem that the mortality rate is twice what it is in the US--is this close to being right?
Bill