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Does Adding Standard Systematic Biopsy to Targeted Prostate Biopsy in PI-RADS 3 to 5 Lesions Enhance the Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer? Should All Patients with PI-RADS 3 Undergo Targeted Biopsy?

Enrique Gomez-GomezSara Moreno SorribasJose Valero-RosaAna BlancaJuan MesaJoseba SalgueroJulia Carrasco-ValienteDaniel López-RuizFrancisco José Anglada-Curado
Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Our results suggest that standard biopsy could be safely omitted in patients with anterior lesions and in those with PI-RADS-5 lesions. Targeted biopsy for PI-RADS-3 lesions would be less effective in peripheral lesions with a previous negative biopsy.
Keyphrases
  • prostate cancer
  • ultrasound guided
  • fine needle aspiration
  • cancer therapy
  • radical prostatectomy
  • drug delivery