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Understanding Your Diagnosis

• Diagnostic and Evaluation Procedures for Prostate Cancer
  

  Your doctor may evaluate possible prostate problems with an annual physical and a digital rectal exam or a test for prostate-specific antigen.

• How Does My Doctor Know I Have Prostate Cancer?
  
• Tests That Help Evaluate Prostate Cancer
  
• Prostate Cancer and PSA Screening
  
• How Your Doctor Uses Biopsies to Diagnose Prostate Cancer
  
• Prostate Biopsy
  

  A prostate biopsy is a procedure in which tissue samples are removed with a special needle to determine if cancer or other abnormal cells are present.

• Prostate/Rectal Sonogram
  

  A sonogram uses ultrasound technology to allow quick visualization of the prostate and related structures from outside the body. It may be used to examine the prostate gland for evidence of cancer.

• What to Know About Lymph Node Biopsies: How to Tell if Prostate Cancer Has Spread
  
• I've Just Been Told I Have Prostate Cancer
  
• Staging of Prostate Cancer
  

  When prostate cancer is diagnosed, tests are performed to determine how much cancer is present, and if the cancer has spread from the prostate to other parts of the body.

• Understanding Your Stage of Prostate Cancer
  
• Grading of Prostate Cancer
  

  The cancer grading system is based on a number range. The lower the number, the lower the grade, and the slower the cancer is growing.

• Understanding the Gleason Score and Your Grade of Prostate Cancer
  
• Can I Survive Prostate Cancer? What Is My Prognosis?