THIS YEAR, IT’S estimated that nearly 300,000 new prostate cancer cases will be diagnosed. While there’s no single test to detect prostate cancer, doctors commonly use the prostate-specific antigen ...
Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one.
Jairam Eswara, MD, FACS, is a nationally recognized urology specialist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He’s the Chair of the Department of Urology at Tufts Medical Center and an ...
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, ...
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. This month shines a light on an issue that affects millions of men and individuals assigned male at birth. Prostate cancer is the second most common ...
Former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of what his office called an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer on Sunday, May 18, is calling attention to a disease that is diagnosed in hundreds of thousands ...
If you or a loved one has prostate cancer, you may be interested in learning about medicines used to treat it. One option is a medicine called Erleada (apalutamide). The FDA approved Erleada in 2018.
Source: Getty Images Investigators analyzed exfoliated cells in urine specimens to identify 50 candidate RNAs for prostate cancer detection. Serum PSA testing is not specific to prostate cancer, and ...