MRI-guided Minimally Invasive Focal Therapies for Prostate Cancer

Mostafa Alabousi; Sangeet Ghai; Masoom A Haider

doi:10.1148/radiol.230431

MRI-guided Minimally Invasive Focal Therapies for Prostate Cancer

Radiology. 2023 Dec;309(3):e230431. doi: 10.1148/radiol.230431.

Authors

Mostafa Alabousi¹, Sangeet Ghai¹, Masoom A Haider¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 263 McCaul St, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 1W7 (M.A., S.G., M.A.H.); and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (M.A.H.).

PMID: 38051187
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.230431

Abstract

Two cases involving patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer and treated with MRI-guided focal therapies are presented. Patient selection procedures, techniques, outcomes, challenges, and future directions of MRI-guided focal therapies, as well as their role in the treatment of low- to intermediate-risk localized prostate cancer, are summarized.

© RSNA, 2023 See also the editorials "Mentoring Radiologists and Imaging Scientists in the Postpandemic Digital Era" by Lee et al and "The Future Impact and Role of the Journal in Latin America" by Silva and Elizondo-Riojas in this issue.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Ablation Techniques* / methods
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Male
Prostatic Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Prostatic Neoplasms* / surgery