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The changing role of imaging in clinical care

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Considerable developments in prostate cancer in 2013 have emerged from the imaging field. Hyperpolarized 13C-MRI can monitor metabolic activity to identify high-grade disease and treatment response, and novel PET radiotracers might identify distinct subsets of patients with advanced disease. These examples highlight the progress made at all stages of care.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California San Francisco, 1600 Divasadero Street, Room A717, Box 1711, San Francisco, 94115, CA, USA

    Rahul Aggarwal

  2. Departments of Medicine and Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, Byers Hall, Room 203, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA

    John Kurhanewicz

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Aggarwal, R., Kurhanewicz, J. The changing role of imaging in clinical care. Nat Rev Urol 11, 75–77 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2013.319

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