While information about regular screening for breast cancer for women is widely available, doctors say there is no reliable, safe and comfortable way to screen for the most common cancer for men ? prostate cancer.

However, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, University of California San Francisco, and a handful of institutions around the country are making headway with a new advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging that could provide precise, accurate and easy-to-read results without painful or uncomfortable probing.