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Prostate Cancer : How do You Diagnose and Treat?

  • August 26, 2003

The need for biopsy of the prostate glands for abnormal PSA tests just decreased as a simple set of calculations may help up to one-quarter of these men avoid an unnecessary biopsy of the prostate gland. Experts estimate that 750,000 of the 1 million biopsies performed each year are unnecessary. The investigators found that the most important predictors of cancer were: A digital rectal exam to feel for a hardened nodule that may be a tumor A transrectal ultrasound to look for a...