When is it safe for a rectal biopsy in a patient with prior prostate radiation?
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Radiation Oncology · Stony Brook University School of Medicine
A biopsy of rectal tissue that has been radiated will have a higher risk of developing non-healing wounds and ulcers. Part of the reason that biopsies are discouraged as well as radiation proctitis is a clinical diagnosis and that biopsies of proctitis are certainly not needed to confirm this. Recta...