... to in the content or advertisements. PCA3 Insignificant prostate cancer Saturation prostate biopsy Prostate cancer staging Microfocus of prostate cancer Some considerations need to be made regarding our results. Although in the presence of a microfocus of cancer a PCA3 cut-off >20 could suggest...

...Carmen Maccagnano; Andrea Gallina; Marco Roscigno; Marco Raber; Umberto Capitanio; Antonino Saccà; Federico Pellucchi; Nazareno Suardi; Firas Abdollah; Francesco Montorsi; Patrizio Rigatti; Vincenzo Scattoni Introduction: Saturation prostate biopsy (SPBx) has been initially introduced to improve...

...Pietro Pepe; Francesco Aragona Introduction: To evaluate if an inflammatory pattern at primary biopsy is associated with a lower risk for cancer in men submitted to repeated saturation prostate biopsy (SPBx). Methods: From January 2005 to January 2010, 320 patients, after a negative primary...

...Pietro Pepe; Giuseppe Candiano; Filippo Fraggetta; Antonio Galia; Giuseppe Grasso; Francesco Aragona Objectives: To evaluate retrospectively the detection rate of prostate cancer (PCa) located only in the transition zone (TZ) by directed cores at repeated saturation prostate biopsy (SPB). Methods...

... prostate cancer Saturation prostate biopsy Indolent prostate cancer Significant prostate cancer Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the incidence of indolent prostate cancer (PCa; !0.5 ml cancer and Gleason score, GS, ^6) in men with microfocal PCa diagnosed on saturation biopsy (SPBx) submitted...