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.

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

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

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

A Yale-led study examines the potential environmental benefits of more carefully selecting patients for prostate biopsy in a way that can also spare low-yield and potentially harmful procedures. Yale ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Biopsies detect prostate cancer in about one-fourth of men with abnormal screening tests. However, a negative biopsy does not ensure the absence of disease. Repeat prostate biopsies ...

Laser Prostatectomy In a series of 25 men, radiographic evidence correctly predicted significant prostate cancer in all patients on final pathology. Performing radical prostatectomy (RP) based solely ...

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 ...

Misdiagnoses in prostate biopsy patients lead to $880M in healthcare costs On average, roughly one in every 200 patients undergoing a prostate biopsy are misdiagnosed due to their biopsy specimens ...

Dr. Hu noted that the investigators used a personalized approach to prophylactic antibiotics in the patients undergoing the transrectal biopsy procedure. Rather than giving the men a broad-spectrum ...