Table 4.
The diagnostic yield of fusion biopsy as stratified by the number of prior biopsies and MRI suspicion
| Biopsy with cancer | Low grade (GS 6) | Intermediate grade (GS 7) |
High grade (GS8+) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Previous negative biopsy sessions | Total | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| 1 | 73 | 21/73 | 28.8 | 10/73 | 13.7 | 8/73 | 11.0 | 3/73 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 52 | 25/52 | 48.1 | 8/52 | 15.4 | 10/52 | 19.2 | 7/52 | 13.5 |
| 3 | 40 | 16/40 | 40 | 7/40 | 17.5 | 3/40 | 7.5 | 6/40 | 15.0 |
| 4+ | 30 | 11/30 | 36.7 | 3/30 | 10.0 | 3/30 | 10.0 | 5/30 | 16.7 |
| Biopsy with cancer | Low grade (GS 6) | Intermediate grade (GS 7) |
High grade (GS8+) | ||||||
| MRI Level of Suspicion | Total | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| MRI Low suspicion | 46 | 7/46 | 15.22 | 5/46 | 10.87 | 2/46 | 4.35 | 0/46 | 0 |
| MRI Moderate suspicion | 118 | 45/118 | 38.14 | 21/118 | 17.8 | 13/118 | 11.02 | 11/118 | 9.32 |
| MRI High supicion lesion | 31 | 21/31 | 67.14 | 2/31 | 6.45 | 9/31 | 29.03 | 10/31 | 32.26 |