Nature

Transrectal periprostatic lidocaine injection anesthesia for transrectal prostate biopsy: a prospective study

Here in this study, we evaluated the benefit of intrarectal lidocaine injection anesthesia in patients undergoing TRUS-guided prostate biopsy. Patients admitted to our outpatient clinic were evaluated ...
Nature

Transrectal gene therapy of the prostate in the canine model

In the year 2001, an estimated 31,500 American men will die from end-stage prostate cancer. 1 Currently available definitive treatments, including radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy, are ...
Newswire

Sophiris' Drug for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia was Well Tolerated Using the Preferred Transrectal Route of Administration

SAN DIEGO, CA and VANCOUVER, Aug. 31, 2012 /CNW/ - Sophiris Bio Inc. (TSX: SHS) today announced data from its transrectal safety study, in which PRX302, the company's drug candidate for the treatment ...
Renal & Urology News

Medical and Surgical Management of Bladder Outlet Obstruction

There was a large placebo effect noted from both transperineal and transrectal injections. Minimally invasive therapy Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT). In a Cochrane Review published in 2012, ...
Seeking Alpha

Men with enlarged prostates treated with Nymox's fexapotide show profoundly lower incidence of surgeries in long-term crossover study; shares jump 76%

Micro cap Nymox (NYMX +76.1%) zooms up on more than a 10x surge in volume in response to its announcement of positive results from a long-term Phase 3 study evaluating lead drug fexapotide in men with ...