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SUBMITTER: Ghafoor S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785785 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghafoor Soleen S Burger Irene A IA Vargas Alberto H AH
Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20190903 10
Prostate cancer is a very heterogeneous disease, and contemporary management is focused on identification and treatment of the prognostically adverse high-risk tumors while minimizing overtreatment of indolent, low-risk tumors. In recent years, imaging has gained increasing importance in the detection, staging, posttreatment assessment, and detection of recurrence of prostate cancer. Several imaging modalities including conventional and functional methods are used in different clinical scenarios ...[more]