Melanoma: The most dangerous form of skin cancer, a malignancy of the melanocyte, the cell that produces pigment in the skin.
Statistically, the probability of having a prostate cancer present with a PSA of between 4 and 10 is around 22 per cent. Once the PSA level rises above 10, the probability goes up to the order of 64 per cent.
When you join the study, you will have an MP MRI scan of your prostate. A few weeks later, you will have 2 types of biopsy - one after the other. The study team call this a combined biopsy procedure (CBP). The 1st biopsy is called template prostate mapping (TPM), and the 2nd is the standard TRUS guided biopsy.