Every year, tens thousands of men in the United States are diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer. Most are told that they don't need treatment other than "active surveillance" to monitor their ...

Transrectal ultrasound guided (TRUS) biopsy has been the gold standard for prostate cancer diagnosis, but carries a significant risk of urinary tract infection, sometimes requiring hospital admission ...

We sought to determine whether formalin disinfection of prostate biopsy needles between cores reduces post-biopsy urinary tract infections (UTIs). We reviewed a single-surgeon experience of ...

When Dr. Lawrence Newman learned that the FDA and the Nevada State Medical Board sanctioned Dr. Michael Kaplan in early March for reusing single-use medical devices during prostate biopsy procedures, ...

Greater diagnostic accuracy in detecting significant prostate cancer has been reported following a 4-year clinical evaluation at Castle Hill Hospital, part of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS ...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the UK. It mainly affects people over 50 and the risk is higher for people of African family background and people with a family history ...

LAS VEGAS (CN) - A federal jury on Thursday convicted Las Vegas urologist Michael Stanley Kaplan of reusing single-use needle guides while treating patients for prostate conditions. Kaplan, 59, ...

The NICE guideline on prostate cancer recommends that a multiparametric MRI test should be offered to people with suspected clinically localised prostate cancer. People with a significant lesion ...