The Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Surveillance (MRIAS) Trial: Use of Baseline Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Saturation Biopsy to Reduce the Frequency of Surveillance Prostate Biopsies - Concepedia

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The Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Active Surveillance (MRIAS) Trial: Use of Baseline Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Saturation Biopsy to Reduce the Frequency of Surveillance Prostate Biopsies

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2019

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Amer Amin, Matthijs J. Scheltema, Ron Shnier, Alexandar Blazevski, Daniel Moses, Thomas W. Cusick, Amila Siriwardena, Brian Yuen, Pim J. van Leeuwen, Anne Maree Haynes,

The Journal of Urology

Abstract

Our novel active surveillance protocol incorporating multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging detected most cases of disease progression and may enable confirmatory biopsy to be deferred, but should not replace 3-year surveillance biopsy altogether due to occasional magnetic resonance imaging invisible tumors.