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News: February 14, 2012
Making Sense of Cancer Screening Updates
TUESDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- As experts alter course on guidelines for cancer screenings such as mammograms and the prostate-specific antigen test, the general public is understandably confused. Women at age 40 wonder if they should have a...
Panel's Rejection of PSA Test Spurs Mixed Reaction From Experts
FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- News that a key government advisory panel will give a thumbs-down next week to a controversial blood test for prostate cancer is garnering both praise and condemnation from experts. A draft report due out early n...
Report: Task Force to Recommend Against PSA Test
THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is preparing to recommend that men no longer get screened for prostate cancer by undergoing prostate specific antigen -- or PSA -- testing, CNN reported Thursday evening,...
Urine Test Might Help Predict Prostate Cancer Risk
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A new urine test might help doctors detect prostate cancer and better evaluate a patient's treatment options, researchers say. "This is a tool that men and their physician can use to help them decide whether i...
Earlier PSA Test Best Predicts Risk of Dying From Prostate Cancer: Study
WEDNESDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- The results of a first prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for males between the ages of 44 and 50 can predict the risk of dying of prostate cancer within the next 25 to 30 years, according to a new study. Re...
PSA Test Could Be Improved to Spot Prostate Cancer
MONDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) -- Amid the controversy swirling around the value of PSA testing as a screen for prostate cancer, new evidence emerges that there may be ways to fine-tune the screening so it benefits more men, while avoiding unnece...
Prostate Cancer Screening Doesn't Cut Death Rates: Study
THURSDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- A 20-year study from Sweden suggests that screening for prostate cancer does not substantially reduce the risk of death from the disease. On the other hand, a good many men might receive false-positive result...
PSA Test Cut-off Could Signal Low-Risk Prostate Cancer
TUESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men who have a low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) score when they're first tested may not need to be screened annually and probably don't need to undergo a biopsy, a new study suggests. Dutch researchers prese...
PSA Test Reduces Risk of Spread if Prostate Cancer Strikes
MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Having a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to screen for prostate cancer reduces the risk that if cancer develops it will spread to other parts of the body, new research indicates. The finding adds to the ong...
Uninsured With Prostate Cancer Diagnosed With More Advanced Disease
FRIDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Prostate cancer patients who are uninsured or on Medicaid at the time of their diagnosis tend to have more severe disease, likely because they have less access to medical care, U.S. researchers report. They ana...
Men With Low PSA at 60 Might Not Need Further Screening
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Fresh on the heels of a similar report released earlier this week, a new study shows that men who have a low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level at 60 do not really need future screening. Conversely, men w...
Prostate Cancer Screening No Benefit to Older Men With Low PSA Levels
MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Although many men are concerned about prostate cancer, a new study finds that in men aged 55 to 74 with low levels of baseline prostate-specific antigen (PSA), further screening and early detection of prostate ...
Statins, Painkillers May Upset PSA Test Results
FRIDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Some of the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States may skew results of prostate cancer screening tests, possibly causing errors in diagnoses, a new study finds. A prostate cancer diagnosis is typically...
PSA Test Does Cut Prostate Cancer Deaths, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to the ongoing debate on the usefulness of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test for prostate cancer, new research from Sweden finds the screen cuts lives lost to the disease by almost half. T...
New Tests for Prostate Cancer Might Bring More Certainty
WEDNESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- Two new tests promise to cut down on the number of biopsies now taken from men suspected of having prostate cancer, researchers report. The tests -- still in the early stages of development -- might also offer...
New Test May Predict Prostate Cancer's Aggressiveness
MONDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- An updated version of the standard prostate cancer test can help improve predictions about which men might not require immediate treatment, researchers report. The basic test measures blood levels of prostate-s...
New Prostate Cancer Guidelines Aim to Empower the Patient
FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- New American Cancer Society guidelines on prostate cancer screening mean that many men will be faced with a cascade of decisions, with a growing responsibility for those decisions falling on their shoulders. The...
New Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines Unveiled
WEDNESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time in almost a decade, the American Cancer Society has revamped its recommendations for prostate cancer screening. In new guidelines released Wednesday, the society says that men who choose to...
PSA Reading Could Predict Post-Radiation Survival
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Prostate cancer patients whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels rise within 18 months after radiotherapy have an increased risk of death, say U.S. researchers. Their study included more than 2,100 patien...
American Cancer Society Stands By Cancer Screening Guidelines
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The American Cancer Society says it is not currently rethinking its stance on cancer screening, as was widely reported Wednesday. "We are not redoing or rethinking our guidelines at this time, nor are we goin...
PSA 'Nanotest' May Spot Prostate Cancer's Return After Surgery
MONDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new test that could revolutionize the treatment of men following prostate cancer surgery has worked well in a small, early trial, researchers report. Using nanotechnology, the researchers were able to detect p...
Studies Find PSA Screening Unreliable
FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The inability of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test to distinguish between deadly and harmless prostate cancers makes it unusable as a population-wide screening tool, new research claims. Because of its u...
Prostate Cancer Over-Diagnosed: Study
MONDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Mass screening for prostate cancer with a test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has led to mass over-diagnosis and over-treatment, a new study contends. Since the PSA screening test came into use in 1986, fed...
Painkillers May Be Good for the Prostate
SATURDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Taking over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen might help men avoid prostate problems. But even so, medical experts are quick to caution men not to self-dose or to take more than the recomme...
Gene Test Helps Detect Prostate Cancer
SUNDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- A new blood test greatly reduces false-positive results in prostate cancer screenings and, when used in combination with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, could prevent many unnecessary biopsies, U.S. resea...
Experts Back Away From Annual PSA Test
MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- New guidelines on prostate cancer screening suggest that annual PSA blood tests might not be necessary for many men, but the same guidelines call for a "baseline" PSA test at the age of 40, rather than 50. A pr...
PSA Testing: What Should Men Do?
THURSDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- In the wake of yesterday's publication of two major studies on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to detect prostate cancer -- one finding that it didn't save lives and another finding that it did -- Am...
Tests Might Diagnose, Predict Prostate Cancer
TUESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- One study suggests that a simple urine test could pick out 50 percent of men with prostate cancer. Another study says that combining risk factors for prostate cancer may help predict the likelihood of developin...
PSA Tests Not Race-Specific, Study Finds
TUESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Levels of a protein doctors examine to help determine the likelihood of a man developing prostate cancer predicts chances of the disease occurring in blacks just as well as in whites, a new study shows. The fin...
Many Older Men Won't Benefit from PSA Test
FRIDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood tests offer no benefit to many men ages 75 to 80, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from 727 prostate cancer patients and 122 cancer-free men who took ...
Levels of Circulating Tumor Cells Could Predict Prostate Cancer Outcome
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Checking for changes in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) could help doctors predict advanced prostate cancer patients' survival and response to treatment, U.S. researchers report. They studied the...
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