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 ...

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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 UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has rejected calls for population-wide prostate cancer screening using the PSA test. More than 63,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually in ...

A charity providing free prostate cancer tests has called for more NHS screening to reduce the number of men who go undiagnosed. The Torbay Prostate Support Association (TPSA) said men who had the ...

Screening men for prostate cancer would save thousands of lives by slashing their risk of dying from the disease by 13 per cent, a major study reveals. Testing led to a ‘sustained reduction’ in deaths ...

The UK's National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme ...

A roster of high profile advocates, including sportsmen, actors, two previous prime ministers and over 100 MPs, have recently joined patient groups and charities in calling for a UK national prostate ...

Super Bowl champions Bruce Arians and Rob Gronkowski star in a Super Bowl ad to encourage men to get screened for prostate ...