[9/9] 📖 If you would like to learn more about why this research is so important for men with #ProstateCancer, you can read more about the project in our latest News & Views article: buff.ly/3QrafUP

[8/9] Impact:

🥳 bpMRI detects clinically significant #ProstateCancer as effectively as mpMRI, without increasing detection of insignificant cancer.

💙 Adopting bpMRI scans would increase scanner capacity and help more men receive timely diagnoses.

[7/9] ✅ Importantly, the team also demonstrated that bpMRI and mpMRI detect a comparable number of clinically insignificant #ProstateCancer.

💙 This is crucial to minimise overdiagnosis and protect men from unnecessary biopsies.

[6/9] ✅ Excitingly, the research showed that bpMRI is just as effective as mpMRI in detecting clinically significant #ProstateCancer.

[5/9] 👨 In the trial, 490 men underwent a scan.

🩻 Results for bpMRI were reviewed first, followed by those for mpMRI.

💉 If either scan indicated #ProstateCancer, men had a targeted biopsy.

[4/9] 💰 To explore this, we funded a clinical trial called PRIME, which investigated whether bpMRI is as effective as mpMRI in detecting clinically significant #ProstateCancer.

[3/9] 💡 The team proposed biparametric MRI (bpMRI) as a faster, effective alternative.

🩻 While mpMRI uses 3 imaging types, bpMRI uses 2 and doesn’t require contrast agents, cutting scan time by up to 50%, increasing capacity, removing the need for injections, and lowering costs.

[2/9] ️Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) is now a key part of the diagnostic pathway for #ProstateCancer, thanks in part to research we supported in 2008.

👨 The next challenge: how can we make diagnostic imaging more efficient?

[1/9] 🔎 Let’s take a closer look at the exciting findings from the Prostate Cancer UK-funded study led by @veerukasi.bsky.social, Dr Alex Ng & Dr Aqua Asif at @ucl.ac.uk recently published in @jama.com 🧵.

Could faster MRI scans allow more men to receive timely #ProstateCancer diagnoses?

Research published in @jama.com led by @veerukasi.bsky.social, Dr Alex Ng & Dr Aqua Asif at @ucl.ac.uk compares the efficacy of shortened versus standard-length scans.

Grab a ☕ & read: doi.org/10.1001/jama...

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🤗And the @ucl.ac.uk @veerukasi.bsky.social teams showed supporters how their fundraising is enabling huge improvements to diagnosis and care.

A huge thank you to all our collaborators for coming along to our #ELIPSE meeting @benchallacombe.bsky.social @veerukasi.bsky.social

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