In the US, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men – but experts can’t agree about testing ...

It's natural to have questions about a prostate exam. Here, a Tufts University chair of urology gently walks you through the experience.

Guidance and recommendations for prostate cancer screening have changed over the years. While there is no standard screening test, doctors may use a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to help ...

American men, dying at the rate of about 30,000 a year from prostate cancer, need a better test to screen for the disease. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of doctors that advises ...

Before the PSA test, being diagnosed with prostate cancer was almost a death sentence. Now, 16 percent of men are diagnosed, but only 3 percent succumb to the disease.

Prostate cancer is typically screened by a blood test or digital exam, and Sokoloff said it's unlikely symptoms will present until much later in the disease. Sokoloff's also a prostate cancer ...

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Doctors can also screen for prostate cancer with an MRI, for example, and a cancer diagnosis does not lead to treatment as often. This used to be called "watchful waiting," but Dahut said it's ...

Doctors have warned against introducing a national screening programme for prostate cancer, because of concerns that the risks posed by the test are greater than its potential benefits.