Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among men in England, with cases surging by 25 per cent between 2019 and 2023, according to NHS data. It’s also the second-deadliest form of the ...
Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...
The prostate health index (PHI) is a blood test that more accurately assesses the risk of prostate cancer than a traditional PSA test. The PHI combines three different PSA tests to create one risk ...
Has Joe Biden ever had a prostate-specific antigen or PSA test? It’s a simple blood draw that measures a protein potentially indicating prostate cancer and is nearly always included in a middle-aged ...
Editor's note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.When I learned that ...
PSA Test: People in India do not get tested easily, even if they have a disease. Talking about regular testing is meaningless. But doctors warn that every man should get a PSA test done once after ...
A new at-home saliva test for prostate cancer could outperform current testing methods, a new study suggests. Researchers have developed a simple spit test, that can be performed at home and does not ...
Just when society is beginning to get to grips with one of the main killers of men in the UK, prostate cancer, along comes an ...
Rates of prostate cancer in the United States dropped by 53% from 1992, when prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing was widely used, to 2013, the latest year for which data are available. The finding ...