St. Mary’s Medical Group Urology is proud to introduce a complete MRI solution for analysis, planning and interventional biopsy of the prostate. MRI/ultrasound biopsy (Uronav) is poised to become the new standard in prostate care. St. Mary’s is part of Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic and non-profit health system.
This technique fuses pre-biopsy MR images of the prostate in an easy-to-navigate digital imaging system and allows physicians to perform real-time, comprehensive analyses of prostate MRI studies. Prostate MR Images can potentially identify specific areas within the gland that are suspicious and require further evaluation. Performing a biopsy with MRI/ultrasound fusion holds the potential to better target the suspicious areas, reduce the number of tissue samples acquired, and may reduce the risk of infection, bleeding, pain and recovery time.
This complete clinical MRI solution for the prostate offers a truly new imaging and intervention option for many patients with elevated and/or rising PSA levels. This combination gives our urologists, oncologists and radiologists the ability to offer our patients an alternative to remaining in an uncertain state of diagnosis after a prostate exam.
This technology then allows physicians to synchronize patient studies for easy review while providing complete, extensive summary reports that highlight all crucial aspects of the study, and communicate study results to patients in an effective and timely manner.
“We are confident that this technology will bring renewed hope to patients and greater confidence to our physicians – a positive development coinciding with rising prostate cancer levels,†explains Dr. Michelle Boger, Urologist at St. Mary’s Medical Group Urology.
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer has become the most common form of cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men. The introduction of this technology at St. Mary’s will benefit the 1 in 6 men who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
For more information visit https://www.stmarys.org/services/urology/mri-prostate-screening/
