Biopsie: im Spital oder bei einem Arzt?

In my opinion go to the hospital. Imagine if you need a second opinion about something, effectively you are telling your colleague you think her husband is wrong. How is that going to effect with your friendship.

The hospital is more anonymous, and that's better.

The biopsy is basically painless. Once the Doctor begins he will hear clicks each time a core is taken. My only preparation was a self administered fleet enema just to clear the rectum prior to my leaving for my appointment. Once I went into the Doctors office I was back out in less than 20 minutes including the time I waited for him. Mine was ultrasound guided based on the MRI. I did take antibiotics before and after. My Urologist said he had never had anyone get an infection for the hundreds he has done and from speaking with other Urologists anyone that has they believed the patient fid not follow the antibiotic regimen. I actually had to take them for a week due to a weakened immune system from chemotherapy from an earlier cancer 20 years ago. No special requirements afterwards. I was told I might have a little blood in my stool (I had none) or in my urine. The only blood in my Urine was immediately after I was done with the biopsy I went into their bathroom to urinate and one tiny clot of blood was in the toilet. That was it. Never any further blood on urination. My Biopsy was at 5:30pm so I just went home, but was told if mine had been in the morning I could have returned to a light office job in the afternoon. No special needs of the bathroom were required, just told to drink plenty of water. Now what was shocking although I was warned was that my semen would be rust colored. Abstaining from sex or ejaculation for a week  I think is what I recall and no heavy lifting for a couple days. When my wife and I decided to play around we decided to hold off on actual intercourse the first time to see my semen. After that it was decided to temporarily use a condom more for her comfortability with the color of the semen as there was nothing wrong with it. The color returned to normal within 3 weeks. Hope that helps.

My experience was similar to those above.  I found it a bit uncomfortable, a dull pain, and decided to clench my buttocks but the doctor told me to stop doing it.  When I got the results 3 samples were missing and I wondered if they were the one's I clenched.   They only found cancer on 1 sample and it was only 5% of the tiny sample.  That was surprising as it was 13mm I was told.

I recall they gave me a large pad to put in my underwear and some extra ones.  It had blood on it.  If it is a rectum biopsy he should eat food that makes his stools softer.

Looking forward it could be Christmas before you get the result.  In the UK I had 2 appointments in the Christmas week as my operation was 16th Dec.  One was to remove the staples from my operation and the other was to remove the catheter.  So you might get the result at that time.  I was called at home and asked to go to the hospital that afternoon where a nurse gave me the result.   I then had an MRI and a bone scan a few days later.  Nowadays they do the MRI first.

Good luck  Peter

The ellipsoid sounds a better formula than the square.  I didn't think the difference would be so great.  Although we don't know the shape.

Walnut is often used as a size comparison.