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Recent Prostate Cancer News

• Ultra-sensitive test can diagnose diseases in their earliest stagesScientists have developed an ultra-sensitive test that should enable them to detect signs of a disease in its earliest stages, in research published today in the journal Nature Materials.
• DiagnoCure’s PCA3 prostate cancer diagnostic test showcased at AUA meetingDiagnoCure Inc., a Quebec life sciences company that develops and commercializes high-value cancer diagnostic tests, reported that the PROGENSA PCA3 prostate cancer diagnostic test has been featured i...
• Doctors disagree on new prostate cancer screening guidelinesOne doctor suggests the problem is the rush to treatment, not the screening; another suggests that a failure to screen men could be more costly in the long run.
• PSA test benefits are questionable, yet physicians struggle to stop themRecent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to ...
• CMS sticks with Medicare coverage of PSA testThe federal government is not changing coverage plans "at this time." Meanwhile, a number of urologists and other medical specialists raise concerns that new recommendations against prostate cancer sc...