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    Cancer diagnostics

    MRI screening and designated biopsies could diminish overdiagnoses of prostate malignant growth

    Many countries do not have nationwide prostate-cancer screening. Current methods lead to overdiagnoses, unnecessary biopsies, and unnecessary biopsies. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, have published a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine. It shows that targeted biopsies and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), could reduce overdiagnoses by up to half. These results were