Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one.
Excluding systematic biopsy in favor of MRI-targeted biopsy in men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels reduced the probability of detecting clinically insignificant cancers, but at ...
Laser Prostatectomy In a series of 25 men, radiographic evidence correctly predicted significant prostate cancer in all patients on final pathology. Performing radical prostatectomy (RP) based solely ...
Lower urinary tract symptoms are not associated with an increased risk for high-grade prostate cancer, rendering biopsies and ...
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 ...
Investigators conclude that transperineal biopsy should be the standard of care for prostate biopsy. Prostate biopsy using a transperineal approach has a cancer detection rate similar to that of a ...
Men’s Health Thailand by Dr. Niti Navanimitkul For many men, a diagnosis of prostate cancer comes with two major worries: ...
Micro-ultrasound–guided biopsies were found for the first time to be “noninferior” to MRI-guided procedures, according to new research presented at the 2025 annual congress of the European Association ...
Prostate MRI currently lacks the accuracy to replace biopsies in active surveillance for prostate cancer. The negative predictive value of MRI remains below 90%, the general goal for safely avoiding ...
A new Moffitt Cancer Center study suggests a widely used genomic test can more accurately identify which men with early ...
The lower infection rate is particularly remarkable because the men in the transrectal biopsy group received a targeted course of antibiotics designed to help reduce their infection risk, and the men ...