The use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a mass population-screening test for prostate cancer is controversial. Guidelines from the national screening council state: ‘The NHS will not be inviting ...

As PSA testing recommendations change and the debate surrounding testing continues, people with a high-risk of prostate cancer and their families need to stay informed. John Salata says he is grateful ...

What Is Prostate-Specific Antigen? Your prostate is a gland that makes seminal fluid, which nourishes and transports your sperm when you ejaculate. It's about the size of a walnut and surrounds your ...

Two new reports about prostate cancer -- the second most common cancer men get -- snapped even doctors' heads around. One says taking vitamin E, once thought to lower prostate cancer risk, actually ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Almost a third of men over 75 undergo laboratory blood tests each year to check their prostate health, but a new study questions the value of using the PSA test to screen men that ...

[This is the final part of a three-part series on the PSA test for prostate cancer.] Cancer of the prostate is one of the most common types of cancer among American men. More than 6 in 10 cases of ...

Conflicting new research offers little guidance on PSA screening. March 18, 2009— -- Have you ever wanted something for such a long time that when it finally arrived you found yourself terribly ...

There are few medical questions that cause so much argument as whether or not men should be screened for prostate cancer using the PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test. Looking at previous ...

Many men with low levels could be spared from invasive procedures and frequent testing ...