il tumore della prostata. ii. stadiazione - Università degli studi di Pavia

PROSTATIC CANCER
Clinical staging. II.
* DRE alone inaccurate in assessing extent of
disease within gland, capsular invasion, involvement
of seminal vescicles and spread to nodal or more
distant sites;
* assessment refined by imaging studies
[ultrasound, computed tomoghraphy (CT), magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) and bone scan];
- however, no single test accurately predicts
pathologic stage (organ - confined disease? seminal
vesical involvement? lymph node spread?)