To assess the quality of YouTube videos explaining transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsies of the prostate.A search of YouTube was made for the terms "TRUS", "TRUS biopsy", "transrectal ultrasound", and "prostate biopsy". Videos were selected from the first 10 pages of results and ...
I can absolutely confirm that I would recommend anybody facing a similar medical predicament such as I was facing before coming here, to Not have a biopsy but to have an MRI (if you do not have a replacement hip(s))or and an ultrasound of your prostate to confirm your prostate condition...
Chromatography targets specific glycoforms As stated earlier, current PSA testing is non-specific for prostate cancer. To confirm a cancer diagnosis, an invasive procedure such as a biopsy must be undertaken which can cause side effects in the patient. To remove the need for...
RS is a 67-year-old Malaysian. A routine screening procedure in September 2012 detected his PSA was elevated at 14.7. A biopsy done confirmed cancer of the prostate, Gleason’s score 3+4. Bone scan did not show any bony metastasis. RS went to Singapore and underwent a robot assisted radi...
‘The doctor said, ‘Well the biopsy came back and its cancer’. And he was fantastic, he told me everything, but then the breast nurse takes you out to another room and starts all this hand on shoulder thing, and it's almost like she was burying me there. And I'm thinking I don...
Images in 69-year-old man with biopsy-confirmed Gleason score 7 (3+4) prostate cancer. (a) Pretreatment axial T2-weighted fast spin-echo MRI scan (repetition time msec/echo time msec, 3820/97) shows tumor in midline anterior transition zone (arrow). (b) Intraoperative MRI scan shows ...