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 biopsy needle is used to extract a tissue sample from one or more areas of the prostate. The biopsy samples are sent to a pathologist (physician who identifies diseases by studying cells under a microscope) who analyzes the sample(s) for the presence of prostate cancer.