Your doctor may ask you to complete a questionnaire, like the self
examination here, to help gauge the severity of your symptoms.
If
you have symptoms, you will probably be offered a digital rectal
examination (often known simply as a DRE, which involves the doctor
inserting a gloved finger into your rectum to check your prostate) and a blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA). If these suggest that you may have a risk of prostate cancer, you
will probably be offered a trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided
prostate biopsy. This involves inserting a probe via
your rectum to take small samples of prostate tissue, which can then be
analysed in a laboratory.
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