Up-to-Date Imaging and Diagnostic Techniques for Prostate Cancer: A Literature Review

作者：Zhu Ming, Zhen Liang, Tianrui Feng, Zhipeng Mai, Shijie Jin, Liyi Wu, Huashan Zhou, Yuliang Chen, Weigang Yan · 发表于：Diagnostics · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3390/diagnostics13132283 · 被引用次数：23 · 研究领域：Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment、Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research、Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications

Prostate cancer (PCa) faces great challenges in early diagnosis, which often leads not only to unnecessary, invasive procedures, but to over-diagnosis and treatment as well, thus highlighting the need for modern PCa diagnostic techniques. The review aims to provide an up-to-date summary of chronologically existing diagnostic approaches for PCa, as well as their potential to improve clinically significant PCa (csPCa) diagnosis and to reduce the proliferation and monitoring of PCa. Our review demonstrates the primary outcomes of the most significant studies and makes comparisons across the diagnostic efficacies of different PCa tests. Since prostate biopsy, the current mainstream PCa diagnosis, is an invasive procedure with a high risk of post-biopsy complications, it is vital we dig out specific, sensitive, and accurate diagnostic approaches in PCa and conduct more studies with milestone findings and comparable sample sizes to validate and corroborate the findings.