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08.05.2023 | Commentary
Are upgraded DCE-positive PI-RADS 3 lesions truly suspicious for clinically significant prostate cancer?
verfasst von:
Patrick Asbach, Anwar R. Padhani
Erschienen in:
European Radiology
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Ausgabe 8/2023
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Excerpt
MRI has become a key element in the diagnostic pathway for prostate cancer detection. Due to the high negative predictive value, MRI can select patients who do not need a prostate biopsy because of a very low likelihood of clinically significant prostate cancer. This is important to reduce the overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant disease. The high sensitivity of prostate MRI for the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer allows the identification of patients who benefit from prostate biopsy. However, the specificity and positive predictive value (PPV) are intermediate and highly variable between readers, centres [
1], and study reports [
2]. This translates into unnecessary biopsy procedures and the harms of overdiagnoses. …