When my father and his brothers all died of prostate cancer in the 1990s, it was still considered an “old man’s disease” and ...

In the wake of more than a decade of controversy over PSA testing, research is emerging that points to new approaches for the stratification of prostate cancer risk. Two noninvasive tests — an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Obese white men are about half as likely as normal-weight white men to have a total PSA level of 4 ng/mL or higher, a commonly used criterion for recommending a prostate biopsy, according to ...