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

They want a test which tells them this is definitely 100% abnormal and that is definitely 100% normal. The idea of using the PSA test diagnostically was rejected at first because it couldn’t do ...

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

Other research has shown that fewer than one-third of men with elevated PSA levels actually had prostate cancer and 15% of men with normal PSA levels did have prostate cancer.

Researchers think they've found a way to make the blood test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) accurate enough to significantly reduce overdiagnosis and better predict dangerous cancers.

The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test* to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact on reducing deaths, but also led to overdiagnosis and ...

The test improves prostate cancer diagnosis by reducing unnecessary MRI and biopsies and by identifying significant cancers in men with low or normal PSA values.

It is not normally recommended to test a PSA level in a man who is 91 years old, but you aren’t a normal 91-year-old. Still, you have the result, and you have to decide what to do.

Despite Junkins’ normal PSA levels and no family history of prostate cancer, an MRI was recommended due to the enlarged prostate. The MRI revealed a 1.4-centimeter lesion, leading to a biopsy that ...