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 ...

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 ...

It's common for healthcare professionals to order biopsies for patients whom they suspect may have prostate cancer. A biopsy doesn't just rule out prostate cancer or show its presence, though. It can ...

Micro-ultrasound–guided biopsies were found for the first time to be “noninferior” to MRI-guided procedures, according to new research presented at the 2025 annual congress of the European Association ...

Prostate biopsies are an essential tool for detecting prostate cancer, and about 3 million people worldwide undergo the procedure each year. Dr. Hu noted that physicians collect about 90% of these ...

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

The goal of this investigation from Germany was to prospectively compare multiparametric MRI (1H-MR spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), contrast-enhanced) and standard T2W MRI at 1.5 ...

Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson has announced he has prostate cancer and will have surgery next month to remove it. His ...

Exact Imaging today announced results from its OPTIMUM clinical trial demonstrating the non-inferiority of its ExactVu(TM) micro-ultrasound platform to MRI fusion-guided biopsy for diagnosing prostate ...

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 ...