http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2009/06/27/prostate-cancer-news-reports-saturday-june-27-2009/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2009/06/27/prostate-cancer-news-reports-saturday-june-27-2009/#comment-5468 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:58:27 +0000 http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/?p=6189#comment-5468 The question as yet unasked in any study that I am aware of is whether the results of currently available MRI/MRSI tests actually change what a treating physician recommends. The routine use of MRI/MRSI in the work-up of older patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer (who are therefore highly unlikely to die of their cancer or even, necessarily, ever have any clinical symptoms of their disease) would appear to some to be a classic case of over-analyzing the problem (whether prompted by the need for “defensive medicine” or not). If we are going to suggest that all such patients should have an MRI, then why not a PET scan while we’re at it? What is it that we are trying to accomplish?

]]> http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/2009/06/27/prostate-cancer-news-reports-saturday-june-27-2009/#comment-5467 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:04:38 +0000 http://prostatecancerinfolink.net/?p=6189#comment-5467 With regards to the MRI/MRSI — even if the use of an MRI machine was slightly more accurate in predicting post-surgical disease recurrence, then why would this not become standard procedure? What would the arguments for and against be on a financial level?

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