“TREXIT 2020”: why the time to abandon transrectal prostate biopsy starts now

Jeremy Grummet; Michael A. Gorin; Rick Popert; Tim O’Brien; Alastair D. Lamb; Boris Hadaschik; Jan Philipp Radtke; Florian Wagenlehner; Eduard Baco; Caroline M. Moore; Mark Emberton; Arvin K. George; John W. Davis; Richard J. Szabo; Roger Buckley; Andrew Loblaw; Matthew Allaway; Christof Kastner; Erik Briers; Peter L. Royce; Mark Frydenberg; Declan G. Murphy; Henry H. Woo

doi:10.1038/s41391-020-0204-8

“TREXIT 2020”: why the time to abandon transrectal prostate biopsy starts now

Jeremy Grummet^*, Michael A. Gorin, Rick Popert, Tim O’Brien, Alastair D. Lamb, Boris Hadaschik, Jan Philipp Radtke, Florian Wagenlehner, Eduard Baco, Caroline M. Moore, Mark Emberton, Arvin K. George, John W. Davis, Richard J. Szabo, Roger Buckley, Andrew Loblaw, Matthew Allaway, Christof Kastner, Erik Briers, Peter L. RoyceMark Frydenberg, Declan G. Murphy, Henry H. Woo

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In 1847, 20 years before germ theory was popularised by Louis Pasteur, the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis famously reduced maternal mortality from post-partum sepsis from 16 to 1% simply by encouraging hand hygiene among his peers [1]. Despite the evidence, many physicians of the day were offended by the assertion that they themselves may be the cause of patient deaths and rejected Semmelweiss life-saving advice. Aged just 47, he suffered a nervous breakdown, was committed to an asylum and died within 2 weeks, ironically and tragically, from a gangrenous wound. Like Semmelweis, urologists today have the opportunity to nearly eliminate infections we cause by performing transrectal (TR) prostate biopsy and switch instead to the clean transperineal (TP) approacha process our co-authors at Guys Hospital in London, UK, have opportunistically dubbed TRexit [2, 3].

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	62-65
Number of pages	4
Journal	Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-020-0204-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Grummet, J., Gorin, M. A., Popert, R., O’Brien, T., Lamb, A. D., Hadaschik, B., Radtke, J. P., Wagenlehner, F., Baco, E., Moore, C. M., Emberton, M., George, A. K., Davis, J. W., Szabo, R. J., Buckley, R., Loblaw, A., Allaway, M., Kastner, C., Briers, E., ... Woo, H. H. (2020). “TREXIT 2020”: why the time to abandon transrectal prostate biopsy starts now. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 23(1), 62-65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-020-0204-8

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