Using Biopsy Tissue for Better Prostate Cancer Diagnosis with Andrew Stevenson, MD

Mar 22, 2023

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Today's guest is Dr. Andrew J. Stevenson, a board-certified urologist, and professor at Rush Medical College in Chicago. He specializes in malignant urinary tract cancers, including prostate, bladder, and testes. Additionally, Dr. Stevenson utilizes the full spectrum of minimally invasive therapies to treat these conditions, including robotics and percutaneous thermal ablative therapies.

Dr. Geo and Dr. Stevenson will talk about the following:

What's a good diagnosis for prostate cancer, right? Including the utilization of M R I guided biopsies is not what you think, according to Dr. Stevenson. So what's the best utilization? And Is it the best type of biopsy?

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