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 ...

Misdiagnoses in prostate biopsy patients lead to $880M in healthcare costs On average, roughly one in every 200 patients undergoing a prostate biopsy are misdiagnosed due to their biopsy specimens ...

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 ...

The technique, called transperineal prostate biopsy, collects prostate tissue via a needle through the skin of the perineum, the area between the rectum and the scrotum. The procedure, which uses ...

Research into magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for prostate cancer screening and diagnosis has been ongoing for more than a decade. Initially, MRI was thought to be important for achieving two goals.

Omitting systematic biopsy in men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and negative MRI results, and performing only targeted biopsy of MRI-positive lesions, eliminated more than half ...

Grade group 1 prostate cancer assessment should include PSA, stage, and disease volume for accurate risk evaluation. Active surveillance is safe for most low-risk patients, but higher-risk features ...