In the largest head-to-head randomized trial of its kind, UK researchers found transperineal prostate biopsies using local anesthesia (LATP) superior to the transrectal approach in detecting ...

When it comes to prostate biopsy, is the transperineal or transrectal route better? Urologists are currently awaiting results from ongoing clinical trials exploring whether transperineal prostate ...

"Transperineal biopsy should be the new standard of care for prostate biopsy," said Dr. Jim Hu, the Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the director of the ...

A multicenter randomized trial compared transperineal prostate biopsy without antibiotic prophylaxis versus transrectal biopsy with targeted prophylaxis, examining infections, prostate cancer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transperineal prostate cancer biopsies did not cause any infections in a randomized trial. U.S. and European ...

Investigators conclude that transperineal biopsy should be the standard of care for prostate biopsy. Prostate biopsy using a transperineal approach has a cancer detection rate similar to that of a ...

Patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the randomized FORMULA-509 trial of salvage radiotherapy and 6 months of GnRH agonist with either bicalutamide or abiraterone acetate plus ...

In a study, only 3 of 372 patients (0.8%) undergoing the procedure experienced post-biopsy infectious complications. Transperineal biopsies may be performed in an office under local anesthesia, with ...

About two million American men undergo transrectal biopsies each year to diagnose prostate cancer or to monitor low-risk and favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancers for active surveillance (AS).

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 ...