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Re: MultiParametric MRI and \"saving\" the PSA test
They want to cut down on both the number of unnecessary surgeries and all the biopsies. They calculate that they need to treat approximately 25 men with surgery or radiation to reduce a single prostate cancer death. If you figure that 80% of the biopsies are negative that means 100 biopsies and 25 prostatectomies are needed to reduce one prostate cancer death. If there weren't any complications from the biopsies and treatments, it wouldn't matter. but more than a few go quite wrong.
