For years, men were told to schedule an annual prostate exam after age 50—but screening recommendations have changed. Routine digital exams are no longer advised for prostate cancer detection, and PSA ...

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 ...

Routine use of MRI during active surveillance of men with prostate cancer allows patients to skip digital rectal examinations and some biopsies, and this approach is best practice, according to an ...

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 ...