Is Prostate Biopsy Essential to Diagnose Prostate Cancer in the Older Patient with Extremely High Prostate-Specific Antigen?

The results of all prostate biopsies may be positive and suggestive of adenocarcinoma in patients with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values higher than 100 ng/ml. We considered that the prostate cancer in patients with high PSA might be advanced disease and therefore that the treatment strategy should not be changed according to pathological reports. Thus, we assessed the role of prostate biopsy when diagnosing prostate cancer in patients with...