Digital rectal examination (DRE) is neither helpful nor useful as a solitary prostate cancer screening tool in middle-aged men, say investigators reporting the PROBASE study. The study compared ...

Every September, countries across the world observe Prostate Cancer Awareness Month to highlight the importance of prostate health and early detection. It was first declared by the American Foundation ...

Use of 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors lower the risk of pathologic progression. Both findings on biopsy also predict a lower odds of high-grade cancer. Prostate atrophy (PA) and chronic prostate ...

A common method of detecting prostate cancer may not be accurate enough as a reliable screening tool by itself, scientists have warned. The digital rectal exam (DRE) is widely used by medical ...

Arthritis is identified as an independent risk factor for prostate cancer, with significant associations found in various analyses. The study utilized NHANES data and Mendelian randomization to ...

The petition titled 'Introduce a screening programme for prostate cancer, starting with high-risk men' has currently drawn in ...

For the first time ever, NTNU researchers have identified new characteristics of aggressive prostate cancer. The research lays a foundation for the possibility that aggressive prostate cancer can ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Between 1999 and 2009 in the United Kingdom, 82,429 men between 50 and 69 years of age received a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. Localized prostate cancer was diagnosed in 2664 men. Of these ...