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.
The prostate biopsy is the taking of tissue samples from the prostate gland and examining them underneath a microscope for cell differentiation. Cancerous cells are shaped and arranged differently than healthy cells. The more differentiated cancerous cells are from healthy cells, the more aggressive the cancer.