It is the third leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S. More than 160,000 new cases of prostate cancer are expected to be diagnosed in 2017. "The reality is that prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed solid malignancy in men," says Dr. Eugene Kwon, a Mayo Clinic urologist.
Dr. Kwon says, unfortunately, far too many patients fail their initial treatment for prostate cancer. "The fact is that, after you treat it, it doesn’t necessarily go away. It has a tendency to come back, and, for that very reason, a lot of men get into significant trouble."
A big part of the challenge is locating the cancer when it returns to surgically remove it or zap it with radiation therapy. But technology is giving health care providers something even better than X-ray vision to see where it's hiding.
