Prostate cancer is one of the top diagnoses for men with cancer, but early stages are tough to detect.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a substance naturally produced in prostate tissue. A small amount of PSA regularly ...

Effective cancer screening protocols can dramatically alter outcomes for patients. Prostate cancer, for example, has been one of the most common cancers among men in the United States for decades. In ...

The UK's National Screening Committee has recommended that only a very small group of men at high risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease. There is currently no screening programme ...

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 ...

Health-evidence reviewers reverse recommendation on a blood test that detects a biomarker of a common cancer after decades of ...

Noninvasive monitoring of low-grade prostate cancer with a urinary biomarker test could reduce the need for biopsies and serial imaging, according to a study ...

A new at-home saliva test could help identify men with a high risk of prostate cancer more accurately than blood tests, leading to earlier diagnosis and more successful treatment. Prostate cancer is ...

A new blood test could help doctors identify whether a treatment for advanced prostate cancer is failing weeks earlier than ...

A new study may have found a potentially easier, less disruptive and more effective way to treat the second leading cause of ...

PSA levels can be elevated for reasons other than cancer, such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate. False positive and false negative PSA test results are possible. The American Cancer Society does ...