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Possible Prostate Cancer: Are there side effects of MRI fusion biopsy?
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@jc76 I have an appointment with a nurse at the Urologist's office on 2/18 for a "Swab" whatever that means. On 2/25 I have to watch an educational video online, apparently to explain the procedure. When I see the nurse I'm going to ask some questions such as which route they are going to use to collect the biopsy because this is the first time I'm hearing about transperineal biopsy etc. I guess it's a good thing that I found this discussion forum.
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@kpg7121
Probably yours set up for transrectal. Can you asked them how being done.
The swab is most likely a swap of feces. They use this to fine tune the type of antibiotic to give you. And if you are having transrectal you can see why.
If you read other post you will see those who had transrectal experiences. It is why I wanted transperineally as did not want the stress and anxiety or side affects of having it done transrectal.
Transperineally also comes with increase ability to do more of prostate. I also did not want the increase in infection rate of transrectal no matter how small. I have read those that did get infection being hospitalized. I was told that if I did have transrectal and got infected would have to spend 2 days in hospital treating infection.
Don't want to scare you as we are all different but you should know how yours is being done and the pros and cons. Maybe they don't offer transperineally.
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@kpg7121 Transperineal is what you want…although transrectal is still done, it is archaic compared to an MRI driven biopsy.