May 25, 2015

No more stabbing in the dark!

May 25, 2015/ Jeremy Grummet

Having just returned from speaking at the world’s largest urology conference in New Orleans, the American Urology Association’s Annual Meeting, it’s clear that the blind transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) biopsy will thankfully soon be a thing of the past....

A safer way to biopsy the prostate

September 19, 2014/ Jeremy Grummet

Dr Grummet was invited to write this article as a guest blog on Adelaide Urologist Dr Nicholas Brook’s website in February 2014.

What’s wrong with the current standard method of prostate biopsy?
What is transperineal biopsy, and why is it safer?
Are there any downsides to the transperineal approach?
Is it as good as TRUS at cancer detection?
What other advantage might TP biopsy provide?

Multiparametric MRI – Changing the face of prostate cancer diagnosis

September 16, 2014/ Jeremy Grummet

Dr Grummet wrote this article published in the June 2014 edition of Medical Observer.

At last. Through the dark clouds of controversy that have cast shadows over the diagnosis of prostate cancer for so many years, a ray of light is just starting to shine through. That light’s somewhat longwinded name is multiparametric MRI.