Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers that occur in men. While it can be life-threatening, the disease is treatable, and the earlier it is detected, the better the treatment outcome.

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...

A single PSA test at midlife may identify men with a low risk of prostate cancer for up to 20 years, supporting longer screening intervals. Men with a low baseline PSA level at midlife have a low risk ...

Prostate cancer affects one in eight men in the U.S. over their lifetime, which is the same rate as women and breast cancer.

With smaller radiation beams, intensity-modulated radiation therapy “takes precision to the next level” for patients with prostate, an expert told CURE®. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) — ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading cancer diagnostics company, today announced that its Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier is the only gene ...

When prostate cancer strikes, one question is paramount: Is it aggressive and requiring immediate treatment, or slow-growing and worthy of monitoring only? Right now, an invasive biopsy is the only ...

Factors such as ethnicity, older age and family history of the condition are already known to increase the likelihood of developing the cancer. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day with ...

It is difficult to escape a genitourinary malignancies session at any major oncology meeting these days without hearing a proclamation that the technetium-99 (Tc99) bone scan is dead. The triumphant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say they've developed a urine test that could answer whether prostate cancer is aggressive and requiring immediate ...