Discover how transperineal prostate biopsy under local anaesthesia delivers high diagnostic yield safely and without antibiotics. Read more.

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 ...

UC San Diego Health is the first health system in San Diego County to offer a new minimally invasive prostate biopsy procedure that reduces the risk of infection, improves imaging for accuracy and may ...

The FDA has granted premarket approval (PMA) to the IsoPSA test, a novel, blood-based in vitro diagnostic kit designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of ...

The IsoPSA test is intended to help assess whether patients with elevated PSA levels should go on to receive a biopsy ...

Patient-adjusted nitrous oxide (N 2 O), commonly called laughing gas, did not reduce anxiety associated with transrectal prostate biopsy but significantly reduced pain as compared with standard ...

Jim, a 57-year-old Boston businessman, climbs up on an examining room table at Brigham and Women's Hospital for a procedure that's high on most men's list of dreads: a prostate biopsy. A doctor will ...

Until improvements under development can be broadly implemented, routine confirmatory testing in active surveillance for ...

After surgery for prostate cancer, Todd Elworthy’s PSA came back elevated. Radiation was advised as the next step and Elworthy looked into a Fred Hutch clinical trial and proton therapy. Though he ...