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Prostate cancer screening: Get the actual guidelines for men, why doctors don’t agree, and what you need to know to make decisions

Prostate cancer awareness gets a huge boost on Super Bowl Sunday when a new ad featuring several of the NFL’s greatest all-time players premieres during the most watched football game of the year.
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Testing for prostate cancer around the world. How does the NHS compare?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The global statistics are terrifying. Prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer in all populations, the second most common ...
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Life Line Prostate Cancer Screening Offers 3-, 6-, and 12-Month PSA Testing Plans for Men 50+ Seeking Early Detection

Life Line Prostate Cancer Screening Program offers comprehensive PSA testing for men 50+ through over 14,000 convenient locations nationwide. With packages starting at $159 and specialized men's ...
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Veracyte’s Decipher Prostate Test Is Now the Only Gene Expression Test Recommended in NCCN® Prostate Cancer Guidelines

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading cancer diagnostics company, today announced that its market-leading Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier is the ...
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Should you get a prostate-specific antigen test for prostate cancer?

Prostate cancer is common. About 200 in every 1,000 Australian men will be told they have prostate cancer by age 85. But the chance of dying from it is much lower: around 18 in 1,000 cases.
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EpiSwitch Prostate Cancer Screening Test

LR+ = positive likelihood ratio; LR– = negative likelihood ratio; PSA = prostate-specific antigen; PSE = EpiSwitch prostate screening. *—Binary PSA is defined as a simple test using a fixed cutoff ...
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What to know about prostate cancer testing as 'spit test may work better'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research has found 'wide variation' in the use of prostate cancer testing across the UK. (Getty Images) A new at-home spit ...
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Prostate testing may not target those most likely to benefit, warn experts

Current prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing "may not effectively target testing to those most likely to benefit, raising concerns about overtesting" warn researchers from the University of Oxford ...
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An at-home spit test could help diagnose prostate cancer — and it’s more accurate than a blood test

A new at-home saliva test could help identify men with a high risk of prostate cancer more accurately than blood tests, leading to earlier diagnosis and more successful treatment. Prostate cancer is ...
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New Data Presented at ESMO 2024 Show that Veracyte’s Decipher Prostate Test Predicts Chemotherapy Benefit in Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading cancer diagnostics company, today announced that new data from a phase 3 trial of the multi-center, randomized ...
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Phase III Trial Demonstrates Veracyte’s Decipher Prostate Test Predicts Benefit from Adding Hormone Therapy to Radiation

(Nasdaq: VCYT), a leading cancer diagnostics company, announced that new findings from a retrospective ancillary analysis of the randomized phase III NRG/RTOG 0815 trial will be presented at the 2026 ...