In 2018, a 68-year-old Norwegian stonemason named Roar Gulbrandsen died after undergoing a routine transrectal biopsy. When the cause of death was determined to have been a massive, preventable ...

There was a large placebo effect noted from both transperineal and transrectal injections. Minimally invasive therapy Transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT). In a Cochrane Review published in 2012, ...