With PSA tests, only 25% of men with a high PSA level will actually have prostate cancer, the researchers said. This is because the test is not accurate enough and can falsely indicate cancer in men three out of four times, and can miss cancers requiring urgent treatment and d...
Byline: JENNY HOPESCREENING to detect prostate cancer in older men should not be paid for by the NHS, according to researchers.Routine checks would not be effective even for males at a higher risk because of a family history of the disease, they say.Up to 14,000 new cases of the ...
There is currently no national NHS screening programme for prostate cancer, so screening is vital in protecting your health and early detection of prostate cancer could save your life! Nearly half of all men are expected to develop prostate cancer at some point in their life. The chances of su...
Teams from the ICR in London and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust looked at blood samples from men with advanced prostate cancer and found that traces of cancer DNA could be detected in their bloodstream. High levels of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) suggested that the disease would progr...
For high-grade prostate cancer, a 5% threshold probability represents a risk-averse population, such as younger men with a long life expectancy. At a practice level, this implies that the clinician would be willing to perform as many as 20 biopsies to detect an additional high-grade cancer. ...
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...
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...
THERE has been much said about screening men for prostate cancer but still nothing has been done and men in the UK are dying at the rate of 10,000 a year - one man every hour. Most men show no symptoms of the disease, but when they do it is already too late. If we do not s...
Lead researcher Dr. Jeremy Clark, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "While prostate cancer is responsible for a large proportion of all male cancer deaths, it is more commonly a disease men die with rather than from. "Therefore, there is a desperate need for improvements in diagnosing...
AIM. To conduct an up-to-date systematic review to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of urinary biomarkers in isolation for prostate adenocarcinoma diagnosis in biopsy-nave men presenting with suspected prostate cancer. METHOD. Eligibility criteria: prospective cohort studies or randomised clinical trials ...