i m, you know, thrilled that i was diagnosed so early. we don t see any sign of cancer recurrence there. paul was among 300 men aged 50 to 75 who took part in the trial led by university college london. of the 25 men whose aggressive cancers were picked up via mri, over half like paul had negative blood tests. we think these are really significant results. what we see is that a short ten minute mri scan used as a screening test can selectively pick up significant cancers in a much more effective way than the psa blood test alone. that ll help us to diagnose the important cancers early, when they re curable. the prostate is a walnut sized gland which sits below the bladder. it s the uk s most common male cancer, with 52,000 new diagnoses every year. this is what men over 50 can request from their doctor a blood test for the protein psa. high levels can indicate cancer, so it s a useful test,
but unreliable as it s not always accurate. thank you. black men have a one in four risk of getting prostate cancer double that of white men but are less likely to come forward for testing. after he developed prostate cancer, errol mckellar started offering men discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out. and he now runs a charity to raise awareness of the disease. when prostate cancer turns up at your front door, it doesn t care, right, whether you re black, whether you re white. it doesn t care about your wealth. it doesn t care about you. what it will do if you ignore it, it will kill you. 0k, paul. nice and still. larger trials will be needed to confirm the value of mri scans
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could reduce deaths significantly . mri scans have been found to be more effective than the current blood tests which can be unreliable. it s hoped thousands of lives could be saved. our medical editor fergus walsh has been finding out more. paul rothwell s prostate cancer was caught early and successfully treated. it was diagnosed here at london s university college hospital when he took part in a trial using mri scans. the 62 year old s cancer would have been missed if he d only had the standard psa blood test, which came back as normal. if ijust had the blood test, i would be carrying on life as normal, walking around unaware that there was some sort of ticking time bomb inside me of a cancer slowly growing. so by the time i then did find out, presumably it would have been much harder to treat, and much more dangerous to me. so you feel fortunate? yeah, very fortunate.
london s university college hospital when he took part in a trial using mri scans. the 62 year old s cancer would have been missed if he d only had the standard psa blood test, which came back as normal. if ijust had the blood test, i would be carrying on life as normal, walking around unaware that there was some sort of ticking time bomb inside me of a cancer slowly growing. so by the time i then did find out, presumably it would have been much harder to treat, and much more dangerous to me. so you feel fortunate? yeah, very fortunate. i m, you know, thrilled that i was diagnosed so early. we don t see any sign of cancer recurrence there. paul was among 300 men aged 50 to 75 who took part in the trial led by university college london. of the 25 men whose aggressive cancers were picked up via mri, over half like paul had negative blood tests. we think these are really significant results.