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October 29, 2020October 29, 2020

FDA Clears Ezra Prostate AI, a First for Cancer Imaging

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Ezra Prostate AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) program designed to increase the efficiency with which radiologists analyze images of the prostate ... Read more

November 6, 2019

$1.8M NIH Award to Support Work into Robotic System Able to Better Detect Prostate Cancer

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Haichong Zhang, an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been given a Director’s Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his work in designing a ... Read more

July 8, 2019

68Ga-PSMA-11 Better than Axumin at Detecting PC Recurrence, Trial Shows

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Among men suspected of having prostate cancer recurrence after surgery, the radiotracer 68Ga-PSMA-11 is better at detecting the cancerous lesions and provides better agreement among experts than the standard Axumin ... Read more

April 22, 2019

68Ga-PSMA-11 PET Scan Accurate, Safe in Detecting Recurrent PC, Study Says

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68Ga-PSMA-11 PET scans are highly accurate, reproducible, and safe for detecting prostate cancer that has come back after prior therapy with prostate surgery or radiation therapy, a study shows. The ... Read more

December 20, 2017

Gel Based on Horse Chestnut Seen to Improve Cancer Imaging

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A gel, made from a horse chestnut extract, may improve the imaging of tumors, including prostate cancer, using radioactive tracer molecules. A research team now hopes that, using the gel, ... Read more

August 30, 2017

SBP Researchers Develop Imaging Method That Improves Tumor Visualization

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Researchers at the Sanford Burham Prebys (SBP) Medical Discovery Institute have developed a new imaging system that can improve by five times the visualization of tumors compared to standard imaging ... Read more

August 29, 2017August 29, 2017

New Oxygen-enhanced Imaging Technique Identifies Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Mice

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A new imaging technique called oxygen enhanced optoacoustic tomography (OE-OT) may improve the ability to distinguish between aggressive and less-aggressive prostate cancer cases, identifying those patients who can undergo chemo ... Read more

May 15, 2017

New Imaging Agent Shown to Detect Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Mouse Study

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A new imaging agent appears capable of distinguishing aggressive from benign prostate cancer, potentially helping doctors select with better precision those patients in need of more extensive treatment, a pre-clinical ... Read more

April 27, 2017

Men Willing to Pay Up to $2,000 For Better Prostate Cancer Test, Study Shows

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Men would be willing to pay up to $2,000 of their own money to get a more accurate test to detect — or rule out — prostate cancer. This was ... Read more

October 21, 2016

New Imaging Technology Shows High Efficiency In Detecting Prostate Cancer

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LLTech announced the publication of a study evaluating the effectiveness of its new imaging technology in the diagnosis of prostate cancer from patient biopsies. The study, “High efficiency for prostate biopsy ... Read more