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 ...

Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one.

The FDA has granted premarket approval (PMA) to the IsoPSA test, a novel, blood-based in vitro diagnostic kit designed to assist clinicians in deciding whether to proceed with prostate biopsy in men ...

A multicenter randomized trial compared transperineal prostate biopsy without antibiotic prophylaxis versus transrectal biopsy with targeted prophylaxis, examining infections, prostate cancer ...

Employing MRI-targeted biopsy instead of systematic biopsy reduces overdiagnosis of low-grade prostate cancer by more than half, although diagnoses may be delayed among a small minority of patients ...

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 ...

Brachytherapy and proton therapy are radiation therapies, while HIFU and TULSA are focal therapies with distinct mechanisms. Medicare typically covers HIFU but not TULSA, with potential future ...