Your doctor may recommend a digital rectal exam (DRE) for these reasons: Help evaluate growths or enlargement of the prostate gland in men; Look for the cause of symptoms such as rectal bleeding ...

A digital rectal examination (DRE) is a simple procedure doctors use to examine the lower rectum and other internal organs. A DRE is done for a number of reasons. It’s a quick, easy way to check ...

Digital rectal exam. Doctors use the digital rectal exam (DRE) as a relatively simple test to check the prostate. Because the prostate is an internal organ, your doctor cannot look at it directly.

A digital rectal exam is when the physician actually places an index finger within the rectum to see how big the prostate gland or see if there are any abnormalities in the prostate gland itself.

Digital rectal examination not only can raise the specter of prostate cancer by palpating the prostate gland and feeling the nodular indurated spot on the prostate gland but it can also discover ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 6 (UPI) --Among the least favorite of all medical exams, the digital rectal exam for prostate cancer may be on the way out because other tests are more accurate in ...

The quality of evidence to support the use of digital rectal exams for prostate cancer screenings in primary care setting was “very low,” according to a systematic review and meta-analysis ...

Digital rectal examination is indicated in patients who present with anal or perianal pain, abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, an anorectal mass, perianal pruritus, incontinence, constipation, or ...

Who should have this exam? Let's start by saying that the digital rectal exam (DRE) appears to be on the way out as a way to screen for prostate cancer. For years, it was a standard tool, often ...

So the digital rectal exam did not appear to be useful in detecting cases of clinically significant disease if men were going to have PSA anyway," he said. "This is interesting, ...

Q: I’m a healthy man in my 50s. I dread having a physical because of the digital rectal exam. What can the doctor even tell by doing this? Is it really necessary?A: The digital rectal exam isn ...