Discover how urine biopsy offers a less invasive and more accurate method for detecting bladder, kidney, and prostate cancers ...

Germany: Researchers have found in a new study that a combined PET/MRI imaging approach with MRI scoring may safely reduce ...

When it comes to prostate biopsy, is the transperineal or transrectal route better? Urologists are currently awaiting results from ongoing clinical trials exploring whether transperineal prostate ...

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 ...

Called a transperineal biopsy, the procedure is combined with 3D MRI fusion guided technology to highlight prostate cancer. It is the latest urological cancer diagnostic tool to be added to an ...

In a study, only 3 of 372 patients (0.8%) undergoing the procedure experienced post-biopsy infectious complications. Transperineal biopsies may be performed in an office under local anesthesia, with ...

The standard PSA test has anchored prostate cancer screening for decades, but it has a well-known weakness: it flags plenty ...

In a randomized trial of men with a single suspicious lesion on MRI, targeted perilesional biopsy matched standard targeted and systematic biopsy for detecting clinically significant prostate cancer - ...

In patients with a high suspicion of prostate cancer as determined by molecular imaging, avoiding biopsy prior to radical prostatectomy appeared to be feasible, and "might represent a valid option in ...

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 ...