The goal of screening for prostate cancer is to find cancer early, before it starts to cause symptoms, in the hope that it can be treated more effectively. The goal of screening for prostate cancer is ...

There are risks of patients with prostate cancer being over- and under-treated, which is why speaking to a team of doctors is important, an expert said. For patients who recently received a diagnosis ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers believe they have found a compound produced by aggressive prostate tumors and said on Monday they hope they can use it to design a urine test to detect the most ...

The prostate-specific antigen test, commonly known as the PSA test, is valuable in predicting which men should have biopsies and which are likely to be diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, a Mayo ...

The vast majority of people diagnosed with prostate cancer can expect to live long, full lives thanks to improved screening that catches the disease in its early and most treatable stages. But ...

Men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer who want to avoid immediate surgery or radiation can safely choose to actively monitor the disease as a treatment method, according to a study released ...

For more than 80 years, men have been told that testosterone fuels prostate cancer. But a more nuanced picture has emerged ...

Prostate cancer sometimes clusters in a family. “So, father, grandfather and then several sons having had prostate cancer. That’s called penetrance, so strongly penetrant within families,” said Fox ...

In the US, September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. This feature highlights why catching prostate cancer early can be critical, and what researchers are doing to improve the odds of ...

A man in Mohnton, Pennsylvania was told he had prostate cancer and that his best course of treatment was to get his entire prostate removed. Then the family was told the doctors "made a mistake." It ...

HONG KONG — The findings of a new study of gene regulation by androgen receptor (AR) splice variants (AR-Vs) by U.S and Chinese scientists could provide a pivotal pathway for drug designers to target, ...

"Localized prostate cancer, only found in the organ itself, is highly curable. But once it becomes metastatic, spreading beyond the prostate, it is incurable and leads to death." This is confusing to ...