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 ...

Arnhem, The Netherlands - Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Ultrasound (MRIUS)- guided prostate biopsy has high sensitivity to detect prostate abnormalities compared with transrectal ultrasonography ...

The global transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) market is expected to grow at a steady CAGR of around 6% during the forecast period. The market growth is driven by the rising prevalence of prostate cancer, ...

Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) examination of the prostate is the established technique used to obtain systematic core biopsies of prostatic tissue for histological examination. This is usually to ...

Active surveillance (AS) is commonly based on standard 10–12-core prostate biopsies, which misclassify ~50% of cases compared with radical prostatectomy. We assessed the value of multiparametric ...

Less than 1% of patients who underwent the procedure under local analgesia and without antibiotic prophylaxis experienced post-biopsy infection, a study found. Transperineal magnetic resonance imaging ...

Background. Transrectal ultrasound—guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy is a commonly performed procedure, and fluoroquinolones are the most frequently given prophylactic antimicrobials. In the context of ...

Well demarcated hypoechoic areas in suspicious regions on MRI identify men more likely to have Gleason 7 or higher prostate cancer found on biopsy. Ultrasound characteristics of prostate regions that ...

Here's welcome news for men of a certain age: new results support a less invasive approach to investigations for suspicion of prostate cancer. An approach using MRI of the prostate followed by ...

Findings from a recent study challenge a push to reclassify low grade prostate cancer, Biopsy Gleason Grade Group 1, as “benign.” Anthony D’Amico, MD, PhD, chief of genitourinary radiation oncology at ...

Giving men with suspected prostate cancer an MRI scan could improve diagnosis and save those who do not have aggressive cancers from having an unnecessary biopsy, according to a study. Giving men with ...