In a randomized trial of prostate cancer screening methods, a blood-based diagnostic test and MRI with subsequent targeted plus systematic prostate biopsies outperformed the standard approach of ...
A large randomized trial conducted at Tampere University and the University of Helsinki shows that a new three-step prostate cancer screening method can find a considerable number of aggressive ...
Our study found that PZ biopsies offer no additional benefit for TZ lesion tumors, and increasing the number of cores in the TZ region can compensate for the current limitations of TZ biopsies. These ...
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 ...
India, March 23 -- Advances in cancer research are improving how doctors diagnose and monitor diseases. One emerging tool is ...
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 ...
An imaging test could safely halve the number of people who need a biopsy for suspected prostate cancer following ...
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article misidentified a source in the story. He is Jim Hu, MD, not James Hu, MD. Researchers have concluded that transperineal prostate (TP) biopsies should ...