Topics and Expertise: imaging

Nelson and Ferrone explain how they are joining forces against prostate cancer

Fri Jul 8, 2011

Viewing prostate cancer aggressiveness in a unique way

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), used with a novel pyruvate chemical compound that is specially labeled to be read by the MRI machine, is being applied for the first time in humans to study the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in patients and the success of prostate cancer therapies.