@tgregg99 I agree with @heavyphil . Go for a TRANSPERINEAL MRI Fusion Biopsy . TRUS is OLD SCHOOL I'm 85 and both my Transperineal Biopsies were a walk in the park . NO ANAESTHESIA . I sat for 10 to 15 minutes in the side room after - and drove home . Miminal blood in my stool and urine for less than a week - both times , A 16 Core Biopsy .
NOTE : The TRUS ( TRANSRECTAL ) Biopsy is illegal in Norway following the death of a patient from Sepsis . The family formed an opposition group and won their court case to ban this type of Biopsy . The ban is being considered in other EU countries plus numerous Urologists worldwide , are refusing to perform the Transrectal in favour of the new TRANSPERINEAL method .
Following behind , is the newer " REAL TIME BIOPSY " CALLED : AN IN -BORE OR GANTRY BIOPSY ", where you are inside the bore of the machine ( MRI ) when the biopsy is being performed .
Machine cost is slowing the broader coverage of this new technology as is the use of the more advanced MRI Tesla T 7 machines which will replace the Tesla 3 T machines , which had replaced the 1.5 machine .