Recent Advances in Imaging and Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 156
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Interests: imaging; prostate cancer; renal cancer; andrology; new diagnostics technologies; robotic surgery
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Dear Colleagues,
After the successful first edition of the Special Issue “Advances in Imaging and Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/special_issues/042V2L4880) with a total of seven papers, we are pleased to announce the launch of a second edition.
Prostate cancer has traditionally been diagnosed by digital rectal examination and prostate-specific antigen blood tests, followed by trans-rectal or trans-perineal ultrasound guided biopsy.
As prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, ranging from small, indolent, low-grade tumors to large, aggressive, life-threatening tumors, the primary goal for urologists during baseline evaluation of prostate cancer is, after establishing the presence of the disease, to evaluate local and distant cancer extension, and its aggressiveness by staging.
Ultrasound images provide excellent guidance to physicians regarding the gland size and boundaries but limited information regarding internal glandular tissue and little or no detail on focal lesions.
Over the past several years, many advances have been made in the field of advanced imaging in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as the main modality for prostate cancer imaging.
MRI offers increasingly reliable visualization of potentially significant prostate cancers and thus has shown advantages as a means of more effectively selecting patients for biopsy and facilitating direct targeting of lesions during biopsy.
In this Special Issue of Diagnostics, we plan to address the complexity of imaging in prostate cancer by inviting leaders and published authors in this field.
Dr. Lucio Dell'Atti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- prostate cancer imaging
- ultrasound
- multiparametric magnetic resonance
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