Multiparametric MRI usage data for your Trust
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information from your Trust.
Within your Trust, we would be grateful for the following information at your earliest convenience:
1. Do you conduct multi-parametric MRI (mpMRI) scans (using T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted and dynamically enhanced sequences) before prostate biopsies?
If no, it would be helpful to know what the main reasons are:
If yes, it would be helpful if you can you provide an estimate of the percentage of men who receive an mpMRI scan before prostate biopsy:
2. How many scanners do you have available to use for mpMRI scans before prostate biopsy?
3. For each individual scanner used for mpMRI scans before prostate biopsy, please provide the following:
• Make
• Model
• Magnetic field strength
• Age
• When the scanner is due to be replaced
4. How many mpMRI scans before prostate biopsy do you estimate you carry out per year?
• 0
• Up to 50
• 50 -100
• 100 – 250
• 250 – 500
• 500 – 750
• 750 – 1000
• More than 1000
5.i. Do you intend to increase the number of mpMRI scans before prostate biopsy following the first results from the large clinical trial PROMIS?
The ASCO 2016 abstract has shown mpMRI as a triage test can identify one quarter of men (27%) who might safely avoid unnecessary biopsy, without impairing the detection of clinically significant cancer (http://abstract.asco.org/176/AbstView_17...).
5.ii If yes, do you currently have sufficient resources and capacity to cope with this increase?
The information you provide may be re-used publicly. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Ali Cooper
Knowledge Manager
Prostate Cancer UK
4th Floor, Counting House
53 Tooley Street
London
SE1 2QN
0203 310 7000
Dear Martin
In response to your FOI below, I am writing to inform you that Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS FT is a mental health Trust and does not have a radiology department or use MRI scanners.
With kind regards
Donna
Donna Oliver
Deputy Trust Secretary (Corporate Services)
Trust Secretary’s Department
[email address]
Telephone: 01325 552188
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