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 ...

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 ...

For prostate biopsy planning, multiparametric MRI has relatively low specificity particularly for PI-RADS 3 and PI-RADS 4 lesions. Dual imaging might help.

A multi-institutional clinical trial showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of infection compared with traditional biopsy approaches. A ...

A single PSA test at midlife may identify men with a low risk of prostate cancer for up to 20 years, supporting longer screening intervals. Men with a low baseline PSA level at midlife have a low risk ...

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 ...

Gene expression signatures in biopsy cores as predictors of coexisting higher-grade disease in Gleason group 1 prostate cancer: Results from the Miami MAST prospective clinical trial. This is an ASCO ...

But despite this good news, the overall number of new prostate cancer cases and deaths is on the rise in the U.S.: 2014: 182,806 new prostate cancer cases 2019: 224,733 new prostate cancer cases ...

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 ...