THIS YEAR, IT’S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there’s no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...

Screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test can detect early-stage prostate cancer while it’s still asymptomatic.

Gus Jones takes his health seriously. He's never neglected his annual physical. In his line of work, it was fairly important to remain healthy. Jones worked three years as a deputy sheriff, 30 years ...

Scientists use a metric called “area under the curve” or AUC to assess how well the test performed. An AUC of 1 is a perfect ...

For decades, it has been known that prostate specific antigen ‒ or PSA ‒ tests are a flawed way to diagnose prostate cancer. Many men have a high PSA without having cancer. Others have low PSA that ...

Despite significant advances in treatment, the disease remains the most common cancer in men, with around 55,000 new cases reported every year ...

The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test* to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact on reducing deaths, but also led to overdiagnosis and ...