To check for possible prostate cancer, physicians most often use prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests and digital rectal exams (DREs). For a firm diagnosis, they use core needle biopsies. This page ...

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 ...

Just when society is beginning to get to grips with one of the main killers of men in the UK, prostate cancer, along comes an ...

Prostate cancer screening plans could be scaled back even further, despite growing calls for more testing to be rolled out.

While many people are familiar with mammograms and smear tests, prostate screening is talked about far less. Ahead of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in March, Mr Wissam Abou-Chedid, consultant ...

Prostate cancer kills more than 12,000 men a year in the UK, slightly more than the number of women who die from breast cancer.

Prostate cancer screening compares favourably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing ...

EAU26: prostate cancer screening compares favourably compared to breast cancer in identifying significant cancers and ...

A landmark UK trial aiming to revolutionise prostate cancer screening has begun testing its first male participants. The ...

The analysis – reported at the European Association of Urology (EAU) annual congress in London, UK – shows that it is "no ...

Prostate cancer screening compares favorably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing mortality and avoiding unnecessary harms, says new research. The findings are ...

The first men have taken part in a major UK trial testing new ways to screen for prostate cancer and detect the disease earlier ...