Dr. Charles Metzger from my friends at the Prostate Forum said this about the Movember consensus panel recommendations in the email edition of TheActiveSurveillor: "DRE was the only thing we had before PSA…what a sad state of affairs that was. PSA really changed the whole process especially using the density and free psa.
I do however agree with Dr Marks.
Although DRE didn’t help much in my practice for diagnosing prostate cancer I found all kinds of pathology related to the rectum, including several colon ca. Besides doing the DRE you can get a good feel of where there wallet is, charge accordingly!! look forward to more emails."
Dr. Charles Metzger from my friends at the Prostate Forum said this about the Movember consensus panel recommendations in the email edition of TheActiveSurveillor: "DRE was the only thing we had before PSA…what a sad state of affairs that was. PSA really changed the whole process especially using the density and free psa.
I do however agree with Dr Marks.
Although DRE didn’t help much in my practice for diagnosing prostate cancer I found all kinds of pathology related to the rectum, including several colon ca. Besides doing the DRE you can get a good feel of where there wallet is, charge accordingly!! look forward to more emails."
My concern with the reliance on the MRI is the accuracy of the reading and interpretation. Inaccurate reading causes inaccurate decisions.