MR guided prostate biopsies improve diagnosis of significant prostate cancer compared to random biopsies

MR guided prostate biopsies improve diagnosis of significant prostate cancer compared to random biopsies

In article by Pirkorny et al published in Eur Urol (2014) the authors report a study of223 consecutive patients referred with raises PSA. All had an MRI and random biopsies with additional guided biopsies for suspicious lesions. 63.7% were diagnosed with cancer. Random biopsies detected 56.5% including 37.3% with low risk disease. Guided biopsies would have 69.7% with only 6.1% low risk. Estimated NPV for significant cancer was 71.9% for random and 96.9% for guided biopsies. Follow up of this cohort is required.