What Happens During a Prostate Biopsy?
The doctor will feel your prostate gland by inserting a finger into your rectum (back passage). A specially shaped lubricated ultrasound probe, which is a little larger than a man’s finger, will be placed into the rectum. The probe uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the prostate and the doctor will use the ultrasound to guide a needle through the wall of the rectum to take a tissue sample. Ten samples will be taken and looked at by a specialist doctor using a microscope to look for prostate cancer. With your permission we would like to take a further two tissue samples for research.
