Richard, We're stuck with them for now. But maybe the next generation will get a break. Or at least transperineal will be more widely available. AUA needs to change its policies on TP vs. transrectal, too. This process has begun.
It would be too good to be real if someday the biopsy was obsolete, but given the ever present reliance on PSA by many urologists I expect it may sometime before we no longer have to contend with the prospect of repeated biopsies.
Richard, We're stuck with them for now. But maybe the next generation will get a break. Or at least transperineal will be more widely available. AUA needs to change its policies on TP vs. transrectal, too. This process has begun.
It would be too good to be real if someday the biopsy was obsolete, but given the ever present reliance on PSA by many urologists I expect it may sometime before we no longer have to contend with the prospect of repeated biopsies.