Routine health check-ups are strangely not as common as they should in India. Doctors often advise getting annual check-ups to test for risk of various non-communicable diseases, the burden of which ...

News that former President Joseph Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly ...

There is a 'large variation' between GP surgeries when it comes to the use of a prostate cancer test for men who have no ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WPVI) -- The Preventive Services Task Force is changing recommendations that can affect millions of middle-aged men. Five years ago, it opposed routine screening for prostate cancer, ...

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 ...