Apr 1, 2020

Utility of digital rectal examination in a population with prostate cancer treated with active surveillance

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada
Jaime O Herrera-Caceres, Marian S Wettstein, Hanan Goldberg, Ants Toi, Thenappan Chandrasekar, Dixon T S Woon, Ardalan E Ahmad, Noelia Sanmamed-Salgado, Omar Alhunaidi, Khaled Ajib, Gregory Nason, Guan Hee Tan, Neil Fleshner, Laurence Klotz
CONCLUSIONS: We believe DRE should still be used as part of AS and can predict the presence of csPCa, even with low PSA values. A suspicious nodule on DRE represents a higher risk of upgrading and should prompt further assessment.