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How do you decide when treatment is needed

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Posted 19 Jan 2022 at 19:37
Pedantic of me perhaps but please be precise - avoid the old fashioned TRUS ... the newer image guided TRUS is a completely different thing. Nationally, many cancer centres are dropping template biopsy in preference for IG TRUS, partly due to covid and pressure on operating theatres, I guess.

NICE guidance is that men on AS should have mpMRI if there are concerns because PSA is rising, although Martin probably wouldn't meet that criterion because his current PSA is still below his highest previous reading. It also says men should have a template biopsy before starting AS and subsequent biopsies should be image guided TRUS.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 19 Jan 2022 at 20:34

Interesting to read that Lyn. 

My biopsy last August was transperineal under local anaesthetic. They said they no longer did TRUS at all. Does that comply with NICE? 

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Posted 19 Jan 2022 at 20:36
I don't think so but never look a gift horse in the mouth!
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

 
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