Prostate Biopsy-Chapter 9:Who, How and When?Bob DjavanMesut RemziMichael Marberger
The risk assessment tool helps determine whether a prostate biopsy is necessary when PSA screening is ambiguous.
What Is a Gleason Score? Staging Prostate Cancer Stage Grouping 5 min read If the results of your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test or digital rectal exam (DRE) suggest that you may have prostate cancer, your doctor will perform a biopsy to find out for sure. They’ll insert a thin...
Acute bacterial prostatitis after transrectal prostate needle biopsy: clinical analysis. THE RATE OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS FOLLOWING TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND-GUIDED BIOPSY OF PROSTATE IN BABOL, NORTHERN IRAN The attractiveness of MRI is the potential to reduce the need for prostate needle biopsy, which ...
“The MRI/ultrasound-guided transperineal approach allows easy access to anterior prostate tumors,” says Marc A. Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS, in this video. In this interview,Marc A. Bjurlin, DO, MSc, FACOS,describes the ways in which MRI-guided biopsies can be performed. Bjurlin is an...
Former U.S. Army Capt. Aaron Munz is the director of the Veterans Department at The Mesothelioma Center, and he is a VA-accredited Claims Agent. He received the Bronze Star in 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Munz has intimate knowledge of how veterans were exposed to asbestos because he...
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of PSA, prostate volume (PV) and free-to-total PSA ratio (fPSA%) in predicting patients meeting all active surveillance criteria, including Epstein criteria. Method Retrospective analysis was made of the data of 1901 men who underwent transrectal ultrasound ...
How can we predict the active surveillance candidates meeting all Epstein criteria prior to prostate biopsy to avoid overdiagnosis?Sinan AvciVolkan Caglayan
Some oncologists limit their services to specific types of cancers, such as lung, breast,colorectal, or prostate. This can be advantageous if you have a rare type of cancer or a cancer that is difficult to treat.5 The National Cancer Institute has adatabase of cancer typeswhere you can fi...
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