Prostate cancer affects one in eight men in the U.S. over their lifetime, which is the same rate as women and breast cancer.

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.

The NHS will not be automatically inviting all men above a certain age to check for prostate cancer, unlike the approach for some other cancers. The UK National Screening Committee has suggested that ...

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 tests in the UK will only be offered to men with a specific cancer gene variant in a controversial decision that will put pressure on the government to overrule the advice. Targeted ...

Here’s a number that should make you uncomfortable: Black men are 67% more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men. But wait, it gets worse. They’re also twice as likely to die from it. If ...

Rishi Sunak has urged men to get checked for prostate cancer as part of a new screening drive. The former prime minister has ...

All middle-aged men should be offered a prostate cancer test, a landmark study has concluded – just months after the idea was rejected by the Government. According to the study, giving the proposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with about 67,000 diagnoses each year in the UK Prostate cancer screening should ...

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 official body that appears to dampen hopes of a proper national screening ...