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Prostate MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging).

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It's new.

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It's hip.

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It's happening.

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It's relevant.

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Let's get ready to rumble, because this is the

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second leading cause of male cancer death in

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MR now, and is going to have an even bigger

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impact on the management of this disease.

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There are a quarter of a million cases in the U.S.

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alone, and there are 161,360 new patients each year.

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There are 26,730 deaths in 2017 from prostate

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cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.

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So it's no wonder that we are looking for

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better methods of diagnosis and treatment.

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Initially, we diagnosed prostate cancer with

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some relatively rudimentary techniques, like your

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finger, the digital rectal exam, which nobody

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including myself, likes getting when they go

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to see their internist for their yearly exam.

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In addition, it's not a very sensitive

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or specific screening technique.

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That's also true for self-breast examination.

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The serum PSA, or prostate-specific antigen.

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We know that the normal prostate makes PSA.

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So if your prostate gets bigger, as in

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hyperplasia, as in benign hyperplasia, The

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more prostate you have, the more PSA you make.

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So the PSA elevation in

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itself is not a reliable sign.

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In most instances, that you have prostate cancer.

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So, we hope to share with you, over the

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next several hours, in mini-vignettes,

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snippets, that you can look at very briefly,

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what we are capable of, without entering

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somebody's rear end with an endorectal coil.

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In other words, you don't need an endorectal

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coil to do proper diagnostic and screening

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prostate MRI, nor do you need a 3 Tesla magnet.

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This is an indirect coil showing you the

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prostate gland in all its glory in a 7-year-old 1.

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5 Tesla machine.

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But you don't even need a new machine.

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You need some very basic techniques to

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diagnose and screen prostate cancer and

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they include high-quality T2 spin echo

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imaging with good external coil technology

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and high-quality diffusion imaging.

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If you have that, you can do prostate MR.

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Let's move on, shall we?