Some hospitals already use Multi-Parametric MRI to help diagnose prostate cancer, but it is not yet standard practice. This is because, until the PROMIS study, there was not enough evidence to show that MRI results are good at identifying or ruling out clinically important prostate cancer.

The studies that had been carried out before PROMIS suffered from design problems that meant they were not widely accepted by bodies such as NICE and doctors in general.

Many hospitals do not have an MRI scanner that is of sufficient quality to provide the Multi-Parametric MRI scan.

Pall Mall Medical’s MRI scanner has been used for Multi-Parametric MRI scans delivering a very high quality of results.