In today’s Health Alert, promising new blood tests could change how we screen for cancer, but questions remain. Are these ...

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Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has told the BBC that a targeted prostate cancer screening programme is needed urgently, and would "save countless lives". Sunak is an ambassador for the Prostate ...

The prostate-specific antigen test measures the level of PSA in the blood. Elevated levels may indicate prostate issues, ...

The prostate health index (PHI) is a blood test that more accurately assesses the risk of prostate cancer than a traditional PSA test. The PHI combines three different PSA tests to create one risk ...

Cancer screening is at a turning point. For decades, most tests focused on one form of the disease — like mammograms for breast cancer or colonoscopies for colorectal cancer — but new advances have ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

Stage 2 prostate adenocarcinoma is localized, with a nearly 100%, five-year relative survival rate. Diagnosis uses the TNM system, PSA levels and Gleason score to determine cancer stage and risk.