Experts are urging officials to rethink their decision on prostate cancer screening after a breakthrough MRI approach was shown to slash the need for invasive biopsies by half – while speeding up diagnoses.
It comes just days after government advisors rejected calls for a nationwide prostate cancer screening programme – a move critics warned could condemn thousands of men to an avoidable death.
Now campaigners say the decision should be revisited in light of new evidence.
‘This paper adds to a growing international consensus around the use of faster, simpler MRI scans that could make prostate cancer screening more practical and affordable,’ David James, a
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