A new imaging technique, based on an engineered version of the common cold virus, may help doctors detect the spread of prostate cancer to the lymph nodes earlier. This, in turn, could help guide more effective treatment decisions, said the authors of a study published in the July 11 edition of Nature Medicine. "It would represent a treatment advance in patients for whom outcome is not good," study senior author Dr. Lily Wu, a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, said in a university news release.

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