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More accurate prostate cancer test

22-Apr-2018

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Dundee University using ultrasound to detect prostate tumours.

Shear wave elastography (SWE) process is non-invasive.

Cheaper than current detection techniques.

Current diagnosis of prostate cancer is extremely inefficient.

Cancerous tissue is stiffer than normal so shear waves are slowed by tumours.

The technique has picked up cancers which MRI did not reveal.

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Ghulam Nabi

Professor and Personal Chair in Surgical Uro-Oncology at the University of Dundee.

Simon Grieveson

Head of Research Funding at Prostate Cancer UK.

University of Dundee

Founded in 1967, University of Dundee is a public research unversity in Scotland. It is considered a top university in the world.

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Cancer