Physical exam: Vital signs (i.e., heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, temperature) can offer clues to the severity of the pneumonia. Physical exam may reveal labored breathing with use of accessory muscles in the neck, chest, and abdomen.
During a prostate biopsy, your doctor guides a small probe into the rectum and removes a small tissue sample from the prostate for further examination. This tissue allows your doctor to stage the disease and determine an appropriate treatment plan. Contact Us. (800) 615-3055 or. 1  Privacy Policy. 2  Disclaimer. 3  Editorial Policy.
Prostate biopsy. If certain symptoms or the results of early detection tests â a PSA blood test and/or DRE â suggest that you might have prostate cancer, your doctor will do a prostate biopsy to find out. A biopsy is a procedure in which a sample of body tissue is removed and then looked at under a microscope.till, a level below 4 does not guarantee that a man doesnât have cancer â about 15% of men with a PSA below 4 will have prostate cancer on a biopsy. Men with a PSA level between 4 and 10 have about a 1 in 4 chance of having prostate cancer. If the PSA is more than 10, the chance of having prostate cancer is over 50%.