{"id":77024,"date":"2018-03-19T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/mri-for-all-men-suspected-of-prostate-cancer-could-save-thousands-of-lives"},"modified":"2018-03-19T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:03:57","slug":"mri-for-all-men-suspected-of-prostate-cancer-could-save-thousands-of-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/mri-for-all-men-suspected-of-prostate-cancer-could-save-thousands-of-lives","title":{"rendered":"MRI for all men suspected of prostate cancer could save thousands of lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mri-for-all-men-suspected-of-prostate-cancer-could-save-thousands-of-lives.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>G iving all men with suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/06\/03\/enormously-exciting-prostate-cancer-treatment-promises-hope\/\">prostate cancer<\/a> an immediate MRI scan would save thousands of lives a year, the results of a new study suggest.<\/p>\n<p>A trial by British scientists found the comprehensive scan was 12 per cent more likely to detect dangerous tumours than the traditional biopsy, and that the number of men who undergo a biopsy needlessly could be reduced by 28 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Every year more than 120,000 men in the UK undergo a biopsy, which involves inserting an ultrasound probe into the affected area to take a sample of cells from the prostate that might contain cancer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/03\/19\/mri-men-suspected-prostate-cancer-could-save-thousands-lives\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/03\/19\/mri-men-suspe...nds-lives\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G iving all men with suspected prostate cancer an immediate MRI scan would save thousands of lives a year, the results of a new study suggest. A trial by British scientists found the comprehensive scan was 12 per cent more likely to detect dangerous tumours than the traditional biopsy, and that the number of men [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}