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.
Abnormal results from PSA testing or digital rectal examination require prostate biopsies to determine whether the abnormal findings are cancer. Biopsies can be painful, can lead to complications such as infection or bleeding, and can miss clinically important cancer.