The NHS is set to reject a national rollout of a blood test for cancer despite it diagnosing four times as many people with the disease as standard screening.

Prostate cancer specialists oppose plans to restrict screening to only a few thousand men, research has shown.

Government will consider committee’s guidance that says mass screening ‘likely to cause more harm than good’ ...

Does prostate cancer screening save lives? The Cochrane, an influential group renowned for its gold-standard medical reviews, has previously addressed that question twice, and twice the answer was ‘no ...

Only men with a specific gene variant and a family history of certain cancers should be screened, experts have said.

A major assessment of the effectiveness of the PSA blood test to detect prostate cancer has been delivered ...

Early cancer detection has long been one of medicine’s greatest challenges. Now, a new generation of blood tests is offering ...

An updated Cochrane review has concluded there is evidence that PSA screening reduces prostate cancer deaths. The analysis of 800,000 men aged 50 to 74 years who took part in large trials across ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs remains cancer free. Boggs told reporters Friday, ahead of his return to Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox anniversary celebration, that he is free of prostate cancer ...

Wade Boggs says he is cancer-free, two years after he announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. "I'm a cancer survivor now. Prostate cancer is null and void. Thank God," Boggs said Friday ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs says he's been declared cancer free two years after announcing that he had been diagnosed ...