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MRI-targeted or systematic random biopsies for prostate cancer diagnosis in biopsy naïve patients: follow-up of a PRECISION trial-like retrospective cohort.

Stefano LuzzagoOttavio de CobelliFrancesco A MistrettaMattia Luca PiccinelliVito LorussoMichele MorelliRoberto BianchiMichele CatellaniGabriele CozziEttore Di TrapaniPaola PricoloSarah AlessiMatteo FerroGiulia MarvasoDeliu-Victor MateiBarbara Alicja Jereczek-FossaGiuseppe PetraliaGennaro Musi
Published in: Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases (2020)
In biopsy naïve setting, a diagnostic pathway including pre-biopsy mpMRI and TB of only PCa suspicious lesions is not associated with higher rates of csPCa during follow-up, relative to a diagnostic pathway of SB. Moreover, patients with negative baseline mpMRI could safely avoid prostate biopsies and could be followed with repeated PSA testing, since only a small proportion of them would harbor csPCa.
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