British researchers have made a major breakthrough that could pave the way for the first national screening programme for prostate cancer. It will allow tumours to be found early and could ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men but often goes unnoticed. Experts stress early screening, awareness ...

A new at-home spit test for prostate cancer may be better than current blood tests, a new study shows. The simple saliva test has been developed by experts and works by analysing genetic variants in a ...

Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one.

Prostate cancer screening should not be made routinely available for the vast majority of men in the UK, a committee advising the Government has said. In a draft recommendation, the UK National ...

Researchers have developed a new blood test for prostate cancer which they say is 94% accurate. Oxford BioDynamics, in collaboration with Imperial College and the University of East Anglia (UEA), ...

A widely used test for prostate cancer may leave black men at increased risk of overdiagnosis, a study has suggested. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is routinely used as the first step in the ...

A new at-home saliva test for prostate cancer could outperform current testing methods, a new study suggests. Researchers have developed a simple spit test, that can be performed at home and does not ...

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Testing for prostate cancer is vitally important, especially as men grow older. But for a lot of guys, the digital rectal examination – where a doctor or nurse feels your prostrate through your rectum ...

We’ve all heard about the prostate. Perhaps the staggering statistics are what you’ve read – one in eight men will develop prostate cancer and 12,000 die every year from it 1. But what does the ...