To check for possible prostate cancer, physicians most often use prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests and digital rectal exams (DREs). For a firm diagnosis, they use core needle biopsies. This page ...
About eight in 10 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. It’s the second leading cause of cancer death in men, behind only heart disease. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with ...
New research presented at the 2025 International Kidney Cancer Symposium found that patients with localized renal cell ...
A new long-term prediction tool estimates the risk of dying from prostate cancer, offering a more accurate way to interpret ...
A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that measures a protein released in the blood by prostate cells. Both normal and cancerous prostate cells release the protein. Most of the time, ...
Dec. 15, 2025 — For decades, when tests suggested that a man might have prostate cancer, the next step was usually a biopsy. The procedure, where a doctor uses a thin needle to collect prostate ...