NEW YORK, NY - A blood test at the age of 60 can accurately predict the risk that a man will die from prostate cancer within the next 25 years, according to researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, and Lund University, in Scancernews.com...
Blood samples awaiting analysis. Credit: The Institute of Cancer Research, London A new blood test could predict which men with advanced prostate cancer will respond to new targeted treatments for the disease. Researchers were able to detect tumour DNA in men's blood and pick out cancers with m...
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing is routinely used as the first step in the UK to investigate men withurinary symptomssuch as blood in urine or urinating very frequently. Men aged over 50 years without symptoms are also able to request theblood testfrom their GP. The study, "Associatio...
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In December 2010 the UK National Screening Committee announced that following a review of the evidence, a screening programme for prostate cancer based on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood t...
being tested for prostate cancer overall. For example: ‘I tried not to think about the PSA blood test’ (time-point 1); ‘I tried not to think about going for my biopsy’ (time-point 2); ‘I tried not to think about getting my biopsy results’ (time-point 3) and ‘I tried not...
A simple blood test may help doctors decide the best way to treat a man with advanced prostate cancer.
"Current practice assesses a patient's disease using a PSAblood test, prostate biopsy and MRI. But up to 75 per cent of men with a raised PSA level are negative for prostate cancer on biopsy. Meanwhile 15 per cent of patients who do not have a raised PSA are found to have prostate ca...
PSA blood tests for prostate cancer should start earlier in life Date: Thursday, 2-Nov-2006 A study has found that measuring prostate specific antigen (PSA) in the blood may be the best way of identifying men with life-threatening prostate cancer. The PSA test is used to screen for prostat...
Prostate Cancer Blood Test May Avert BiopsiesJody A. CharnowEditor