Could the sextant prostate biopsy be replaced by transurethral resection?

Aim Of The Study: We studied patients with elevated serum levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and low urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) aiming to determine whether histological examination after transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) could detect prostate cancer (PC) missed by previous routine transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided sextant prostate biopsies.

Materials And Methods: We considered 98 consecutive men with serum tPSA level from 4 to 12 ng/mL who were submitted to TRUS-guided sextant biopsies.

Results: PC was detected in 28 (28.

Adjuvant therapy in different risk-groups of patients with superficial bladder cancer.

Objectives: We assessed and compared the outcomes of two different courses of adjuvant therapy to patients with superficial bladder TCC.

Methods: The study included 142 patients (28 women and 114 men with a median age of 58.5 years) with newly diagnosed bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) between October 2002 and October 2003.