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.
Prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, blood test is used to help diagnose prostate cancer. However, an increased PSA level can also indicate an enlarged prostate, prostatitis or a urinary infection. If PSA levels are raised, a biopsy tissue sample may be taken from the prostate for laboratory testing to check for cancer.