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The BIOPRES Trial: Transrectal BIOpsies of the PRostate: End Versus Side-firing

NCT00851292 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 800

Last updated 2011-06-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to study the difference in prostate cancer between two prostate biopsy techniques, namely end-firing and side-firing. These differ in the angle at which the prostate is biopsied.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

TRUS probe

end-firing and side-firing vary in the angle in which they sample the prostate

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Amphia Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stijn Roemeling, MD, PhD · Amphia Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2012-09-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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