3 Further information

Guidance

Sources of evidence
Information for patients

3 Further information

3.1

This guidance requires that clinicians undertaking the procedure as part of an active surveillance regime or as a mapping technique to guide focal prostate cancer therapy make special arrangements for audit. NICE has identified relevant audit criteria and has developed an audit tool (which is for use at local discretion).

Sources of evidence

The evidence considered by the Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee is described in the overview.

Information for patients

NICE has produced information for the public on this procedure. It explains the nature of the procedure and the guidance issued by NICE, and has been written with patient consent in mind.

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