Digital rectal examination (DRE) is neither helpful nor useful as a solitary prostate cancer screening tool in middle-aged men, say investigators reporting the PROBASE study. The study compared ...

A common method of detecting prostate cancer may not be accurate enough as a reliable screening tool by itself, scientists have warned. The digital rectal exam (DRE) is widely used by medical ...

A new prostate imaging system for the detection of prostate cancer has been evaluated by Weiss and colleagues. Prostate mechanical imaging (PMI; Artann Laboratories, Trenton, NJ) is accomplished by ...

Jairam Eswara, MD, FACS, is a nationally recognized urology specialist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He’s the Chair of the Department of Urology at Tufts Medical Center and an ...

A study by the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital has taken a closer look at the effectiveness of common examination methods for the early detection of ...

In 2010, 217, 730 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in the United States, and prostate cancer is now the second deadliest cancer for men over the age of 40. Early detection reduces the death ...