A new report from an Italian clinical research team, and based on a randomized clinical trial of 300 patients, suggests that color Doppler ultrasound offers no significant benefit over standard “gray-scale” ultrasound in the biopsy-based diagnosis of prostate cancer — which is not going to please the advocates of color Doppler ultrasonography. … READ MORE …
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Here in the USA there has been a nucleus of physicians who have argued for years that the use of color Doppler ultrasound enhances the ability to identify and biopsy prostate cancer. New data from Germany are relevant to this conversation. … READ MORE …
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There have been a number of interesting reports over the past couple of days that are summarized briefly below. They encompass such topics as:
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