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.
When you can see a lesion, you've got a major advantage of knowing what's really going on in the prostate. The results have been very dramatic, and the rate of cancer detection in these targeted biopsies is very high. We're finding a lot of tumors that hadn't been found before using conventional biopsies..