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Urine Test Cuts Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies by Nearly Two-Thirds in Head-to-Head Trial Against MRI

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of men with low-grade prostate cancer face a recurring dilemma: submit to another biopsy, with its attendant discomfort and small but real infection risk, or hope that the cancer growing quietly inside them hasn’t quietly changed. The dilemma exists because the tools available to guide that decision have, until now, been frustratingly imprecise. MRI scans help. PSA blood tests help. But neither helps enough to let doctors say, with real confidence, that a

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