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Does puncturing the prostate capsule spread cancer?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 30, 2025 | Replies (9)

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To me the possibility of spread via biopsy is intuitively obvious. We have an organ that is highly vascularized that is punctured multiple times. There's blood in the urine. Blood gets picked up from the prostate and recirculates through the body. The only way to end the debate would be to tag and track individual cancer cells at the time of biopsy. Now that would be interesting.

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@callibaetis I had similar thoughts when seeing that blood!