The FDA has granted premarket approval (PMA) to the IsoPSA test, a novel, blood-based in vitro diagnostic kit designed to assist clinicians in deciding whether to proceed with prostate biopsy in men ...

Lower urinary tract symptoms are not associated with an increased risk for high-grade prostate cancer, rendering biopsies and ...

A prostate biopsy checks for prostate cancer by extracting tissue samples. A transperineal biopsy has a lower infection risk than a transrectal biopsy. Biopsy results are usually ready within about ...

Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly.

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 ...

University Hospital in Newark — which is also the principal teaching hospital for Rutgers New Jersey Medical School — added the transperineal prostate biopsy procedure to its cancer-detection arsenal.

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 ...

Using advanced computational genomics, Johns Hopkins investigators discovered how prostate cancer develops resistance to ...

About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, but the screening process for this relatively common cancer isn’t always straightforward. Diagnosis can be a drawn-out and ...

So, what is the prostate and why does it cause so many problems for men? It's a topic most people don't want to discuss. But it can have a big impact on your life. The prostate is a small organ that ...

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 ...