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RATIONALE: Sometimes prostate cancer may not need treatment until it progresses. In this case, active surveillance may be sufficient. Diagnostic procedures, such as magnetic resonance imaging, may be a less invasive method of finding prostate cancer that has progressed.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well magnetic resonance imaging works in detecting cancer progression in patients with early-stage prostate cancer who are undergoing active surveillance.
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OUTLINE: Patients undergo prostate MRI scans and MRI-guided biopsies of suspicious lesions at baseline. Patients undergo conventional anatomic imaging followed by research biological imaging tests (e.g., magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and/or dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI). MRI are repeated at 6 months, 1 year, and then annually until initiation of definitive therapy or for a total of 5 years.
Tissue biopsy with MRI guidance is done at baseline and annually or as clinically indicated based on change in rectal exam, PSA, or maybe done based on change in MR imaging (i.e., new MR lesion or significant change [> 25% increase] in the size of a MR lesion).
Blood samples are collected at baseline and periodically during study for PSA tests.
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed prostate cancer
Low-risk for progression, as evidenced by all of the following:
Patients informed of treatment options and has already chosen to undergo active surveillance
No node-positive or metastatic disease
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Willing to undergo MRI
Willing to undergo prostate biopsy
No contraindications to MRI that include, but not limited to, any of the following:
No contraindication to prostate biopsy
No medical conditions, as deemed by the PI or associates, that would prevent or limit the patient participation on the protocol that include, but not limited to, any of the following:
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