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 prostate fusion biopsy uses MRI and ultrasound imaging to help doctors find aggressive tumors. Compared with other techniques, it reduces the amount of tissue needed for a biopsy. A prostate biopsy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, an important time to bring awareness to prostate health. The prostate gland is a male reproductive organ about the size of a ping-pong ball that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liquid biopsy enables genomic profiling in prostate cancer with high success rates. Learn more about its potential as a complementary diagnostic tool.

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 ...