Prostate cancer screening for men over 70 is complex, with current recommendations against routine PSA testing due to slow growth and treatment side effects. However, evolving life expectancies prompt ...

A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that measures a protein released in the blood by prostate cells. Both normal and cancerous prostate cells release the protein. Most of the time, ...

The NHS will not be automatically inviting all men above a certain age to check for prostate cancer, unlike the approach for some other cancers. The UK National Screening Committee has suggested that ...

UK experts have recommended that only a small group of high-risk men should be eligible for regular testing for prostate cancer. It is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with around 55,000 new ...

Prostate cancer has overtaken breast cancer to become the most common form of the disease in the UK for the first time.

Cancer charity highlights apparent ‘postcode lottery’ of testing and diagnoses across different regions seen in study ...

Prostate cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the prostate gland, that helps make semen. Most men don’t notice anything ...

Doctors began testing PSA levels in the 1980s to monitor diagnosed cancers. By the early 1990s, researchers promoted it for ...

Here’s a PSA about PSA—meaning a public service announcement about prostate specific antigen. Although checking the PSA levels in your blood is a routine way of screening for prostate cancer, just ...