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For prostate cancer, when do you pursue a biopsy for metastatic disease to the bone found on imaging study?

Is a positive imaging enough to confirm the diagnosis? If not, what situations are appropriate for a biopsy?
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Radiation Oncology · VA New Jersey Healthcare System - East Orange campus.
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Presuming the patient has undergone curative care for his prostate cancer, and had become undetectable via PSA, who now presents with bone metastases, when would I consider a bone biopsy?

So, if he was treated for cure, and had an undetectable PSA on his most recent follow up visit, my question beco...

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