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Does a transperineal approach to prostate biopsy change your treatment plan compared to transrectal?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

The short answer is no. The typical scenario in which I have seen transperineal biopsies done is a patient with multiple negative transrectal biopsies in whom there is still a concern for clinically significant prostate cancer and an MRI has not identified a target to biopsy. In these cases, multipl...

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Radiation Oncology · Community Care Physicians

It really doesn't matter TRUS vs transperineal.

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