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If one decides to use a mpMRI to stage a pt with low-risk prostate cancer, how do you work up a focal lesion suspicious for higher grade GS 7-10 disease?
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Radiation Oncology · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Even though modern mpMRI is sensitive (>90%) at detecting occult GS ≥4+3 cancers that are missed by blind systematic TRUS biopsies, it is not 100% specific. Almost all radiologists will occasionally over-call a radiographic abnormality when it is still only GS 6. When decisions to be made from this ...