A fiduciary is a person or institution given the power to act on behalf of another in situations that require great trust, honesty and loyalty. Fiduciaries you may already be familiar with include accountants, attorneys, bankers, business advisors, financial advisors, mortgage brokers and real estate agents.
As these sound waves are reflected back to the transducer, it records and transmits them to the monitoring device, which creates the images (sonograms). In the presence of an abnormal PSA and/or if the results of TRUS are suspicious for prostate cancer, a prostate biopsy is performed.
If your doctor is concerned that you might have prostate cancer based on either a PSA level or a rectal exam, a biopsy (a lab testing of a small amount of tissue from the prostate) will be the next step. This is the only way to positively identify the presence of cancer.