Prostate cancer blood test remains contentiousA US health agency advises against routine prostate cancer screening while a new study claims it has made aggressive forms of the disease less commondoi:10.1016/S0262-4079(12)61990-3Andy CoghlanNew Scientist...
The Stockholm3 blood test, developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, is equally effective at detecting prostate cancer in different ethnic groups, a new paperpublishedin theJournal of Clinical Oncologyreports. The test produces significantly better results than the current PSA standard. Stockholm...
Prof Dmitry Pshezhetskiy, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said, "Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and kills one man every 45 minutes in the UK. "There is currently no single test for prostate cancer, but PSA blood tests are among the most used, alongside physical exam...
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A pair of experimental tests could help doctors detect colon or prostate cancer with just a sample of blood or saliva. One test examines a person's blood for four biomarkers linked to inflammation. In a small study, it outperformed the fecal ...
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...
The researchers "deep sequenced" DNA extracted from biopsies and blood samples of 16 men with prostrate cancer, collected multiple times over the course of 12 months. DNA sequencing was targeted for common genetic aberrations in advanced prostate cancer to monitor emergence of cancer cell clones, li...
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Two experts in the management of prostate cancer provide key insight into the value of blood and urine liquid biopsy tests when deciding whether to perform a prostate tissue biopsy.Video Player is loading.This is a modal window. This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser...
According to Stiller, it was the prostate-specific antigen test, a blood test known as the PSA, that saved his life. He was tested and treated in his 40s. But the American Cancer Society recommends testing start at age 50 for men such as Stiller, who are at average risk of prostate ...