Serum PSA values >4.0 ng/ml are routinely used to select patients for prostate biopsy, although this approach misses some early-stage cancers. Some researchers advocate dropping the PSA threshold ...

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 ...

However, PSA levels increase with age and a high figure can be caused by other noncancerous conditions, including inflammation of the prostate, benign prostatic disease, and enlargement of the ...

A recent breakthrough study highlights how a simple at-home urine test could accurately detect prostate cancer. Researchers ...

The new ultrasound test can detect the vast majority of tumours ... The current means of testing, a blood test called a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, is unreliable and means men are ...

At-home tests for men worried about prostate cancer can give inconsistent and inaccurate results, BBC News has found. The ...

This is usually to confirm and grade prostate cancer in a patient with an elevated serum PSA level or abnormal DRE ... rather than radical treatment to detect any increase in tumor grade.

When a man is evaluated for potential prostate cancer, we typically do a PSA blood test. This can be very helpful for identifying men who are at risk for prostate cancer, but it’s far from perfect.