While many people are familiar with mammograms and smear tests, prostate screening is talked about far less.To shed light on this important subject ahead of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in March, ...

Rahul Parikh, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Kansas (KU) Medical Center, discussed the critical role of ...

When it comes to detecting cancer, you want the fastest detection possible in order to treat it accurately and in a timely ...

The second most common cancer among men is prostate cancer, affecting 1 in 8 men. Prostate cancer is treatable, in most cases, when the cancer remains localized to the prostate gland. But if the ...

Step by step, little by little, we are learning how to act on this new staging information,’ one investigator says.

A quicker, cheaper MRI scan was just as accurate at diagnosing prostate cancer as the current 30-40 minute scan and should be rolled out to make MRI scans more accessible to men who need one, ...

When prostate cancer spreads beyond the prostate gland to other parts of the body, it becomes what medical professionals call metastatic prostate cancer. This advanced form of the disease represents a ...

The risk factors for prostate cancer – and when to request a test - ...