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.
Early detection of low-volume prostate cancer relies on the combination of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level and systematic transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsy. TRUS-guided prostate biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of prostate cancer (2).