PSA Screening Flowchart
For decades the random 12-core biopsy has been the standard of care for diagnosing prostate cancer. What most men don’t know is that random biopsy can be dangerous and its …
PROSTATE PROS Episode 3: The Beat on Big Prostates
Listen: https://soundcloud.com/prostate-oncology/the-beat-on-big-prostates “BPH is an incredibly common thing as men get older. There’s so much confusion since everything is related to the prostate and many men don’t even know what …
Avoid Random Biopsy: PSA Screening Flowchart
Elevated PSA does not point specifically to prostate cancer; it is only an indication that further investigation is necessary. Each year one million men are biopsied when they do not …
Prostate Vanguard E003: Useful Imaging
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SKIP A BIOPSY? We’ve been talking a lot about the different types of biopsies – targeted vs random and all these new developments. But what’s really …
Prostate Biopsy and Alternatives
BY MARK SCHOLZ, MD It seems we have a national passion for prostate biopsies. A million men are biopsied every year. Two hundred thousand of them will be diagnosed with prostate cancer …