A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove small samples of tissue from the prostate gland. It's a method to test for prostate cancer if a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test or digital rectal ...

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The scan found 91 percent of dangerous tumors and correctly cleared most men who didn’t need a biopsy at all.

A multi-institutional clinical trial showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of infection compared with traditional biopsy approaches. A ...

Rates of severe infection after transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy that require hospitalization are on the rise, a population-based Swedish study shows. "Over 100,000 biopsies are ...

Although mpMRI can improve targeting of clinically significant prostate cancer, its performance depends in part on obtaining ...

Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy. LATP ...

An imaging test could safely halve the number of people who need a biopsy for suspected prostate cancer following inconclusive or reassuring results from an MRI scan, new research has found. Findings ...

Investigators of a prospective validation study highlighted the potential of a urine-based assay to reduce surgical biopsies deemed unnecessary. A urine-based biopsy displayed a 97.8% sensitivity rate ...