Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one.
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 prostate health index (PHI) is a blood test that more accurately assesses the risk of prostate cancer than a traditional PSA test. The PHI combines three different PSA tests to create one risk ...
WASHINGTON D.C. (WPVI) -- The Preventive Services Task Force is changing recommendations that can affect millions of middle-aged men. Five years ago, it opposed routine screening for prostate cancer, ...
Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly.
Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis is highlighting the importance of screening for one of the most common ...
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 FDA has approved a novel diagnostic for prostate cancer that looks to improve upon the common screener for prostate-specific antigen, known as a PSA test. The IsoPSA blood test, developed by ...
Nigeria records over 18,000 new prostate cancer cases annually, accounting for the highest cancer burden among men in the country.
I was one in eight. One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Nah, I was one in six. One in ...
A marathon runner has said a prostrate cancer test would have saved him from his terminal diagnosis. Tony Collier, 68, who has run 19 marathons since the age of 50, was diagnosed eight years ago after ...