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 ...

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 screening compares favourably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing mortality and avoiding unnecessary harms, says new research.

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

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.

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

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 ...

The study's testing accurately identified prostate cancer 91% of the time and accurately ruled out men without prostate cancer 84% of the time. A urine-based biomarker panel may be a promising, ...

A prostate cancer committee has been accused of exaggerating the risks of screening. Advisers to Wes Streeting, the Health ...

Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has called for a targeted prostate cancer screening program for men most at high risk of the disease, reviving a national debate on how to save more lives and ...

The campaign for better prostate cancer awareness has provoked important questions about the lack of testing and screening. Why are men dying unnecessarily?

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