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 ...

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In a biopsy, a small sample of tissue is taken from your body. A pathologist analyzes the sample to check for cancer cells. The main method for diagnosing prostate cancer is a core needle biopsy. It’s ...

Since there were no particular issues with the pre-admission tests, it was decided that I would undergo a prostate biopsy ...

However, I think there are a number of other tests that could be done, such as a Prostate Health Index (phi) test or perhaps others. Would I benefit from taking a different test, or should we stick ...

Researchers from around the U.K., led by the University of Oxford, have found that a new way of performing prostate biopsies is better at diagnosing prostate cancer, but takes longer to perform and is ...

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men worldwide, with an estimated 1.55 million new cases in ...

Improvements in the PSA screening process make it worth another look.

Why doesn’t my doctor automatically order a PSA test to screen for prostate cancer? Shouldn’t all men be tested regularly? With over 330,000 new cases estimated for 2026, prostate cancer accounts for ...

Rates of severe infection after transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy that require hospitalization are on the rise, a population-based Swedish study shows. "Over 100,000 biopsies are ...

Omitting systematic biopsy in men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and negative MRI results, and performing only targeted biopsy of MRI-positive lesions, eliminated more than half ...