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How Well Do Prostate Biopsies Work?

Prostate biopsies: How well do they predict tumor location?

Limitations of current techniques to localize tumors have implications for focal therapy

Oct 1, 2006
By: John T. Wei, MD, MS

Although needle biopsies are being used for localization, the majority of prostate cancers are multifocal in nature and invisible on gray scale ultrasonography. READ MORE