Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy. LATP ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article misidentified a source in the story. He is Jim Hu, MD, not James Hu, MD. Researchers have concluded that transperineal prostate (TP) biopsies should ...

A multi-institutional clinical trial showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of infection compared with traditional biopsy approaches. A ...

In the largest head-to-head randomized trial of its kind, UK researchers found transperineal prostate biopsies using local anesthesia (LATP) superior to the transrectal approach in detecting ...

Researchers from around the U.K., led by the University of Oxford, have found that a new way of performing prostate biopsies is better at diagnosing prostate cancer, but takes longer to perform and is ...