Role of Systematic Control Biopsies following Partial Gland Ablation with High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer.

Systematic control biopsy within a year after PGA for Cs-PCa can identify the presence of residual Cs-PCa in up to a third of patients. From our early experience, control biopsy should be systematically offered patients regardless of PSA kinetics or control mpMRI results.