Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital report that a new imaging technology promises to achieve the long-sought goal of singling out prostate cancers that are life-threatening and require the most aggressive treatment.
According to a report published Jan. 27 in Science Translational Medicine, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, which provides information about the metabolic chemistry of suspected cancerous tissue, gave good results in a small trial in which its readings were compared with those of current measures of prostate cancer danger.
The technology currently requires a magnetic field far more powerful than those in magnetic resonance imaging devices in current medical use. This kind of analysis can be done without removing the prostate glands.
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