Prostate-cancer screening based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood was introduced—and readily adopted—in the United States around the late 1980s. But this screening method, in ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers ...

* New urine biomarker test shows over 90% accuracy in detecting prostate cancer * Test works even when PSA levels appear normal * Biomarker levels drop after //surgery, confirming prostate origin ...

Long-term results from a European study showed that prostate cancer mortality was 13% lower in the PSA screening group versus the control group. Compared with the trial update at 16 years, the number ...

Here’s a PSA about PSA—meaning a public service announcement about prostate specific antigen. Although checking the PSA levels in your blood is a routine way of screening for prostate cancer, just ...