In a recently published a paper in Urologia Internationalis, Italian investigators published findings of a systemic review of the medical literature from 1995 to 2011 showing that saturation prostate ...

While the majority of prostate cancers are detected in the peripheral zone (PZ), [1] recent MRI data suggest that the anterior zone (AZ) of the prostate, an area that is not palpable on digital rectal ...

Wright et al conducted a 12-core biopsy study evaluating the location of unique prostate carcinoma. 35 The most common site of isolated disease was the anterior apex, where 17% of cancers would have ...

Screening for prostate cancer is burdened by a high rate of overdiagnosis. The most appropriate algorithm for population-based screening is unknown. We invited 37,887 men who were 50 to 60 years of ...

If your doctor suspects that you have prostate cancer, they may advise you to undergo a prostate biopsy procedure. A biopsy is a standard cancer screening test that involves the careful removal of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excluding systematic biopsy in favor of MRI-targeted biopsy in men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels reduced the probability of detecting clinically insignificant cancers, but at ...

To date, men undergoing screening through the measurement of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels have had a significant reduction in neoplastic mortality. Because of its low specificity, however, ...