While there is sadness over MLB Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg's death, people who knew him say they were not surprised by the announcement. He had battled prostate cancer for the last year-and-a-half.

Stage 3 prostate cancer is locally advanced, with tumors extending beyond the prostate but not metastasizing distantly. Diagnosis involves the TNM system, Gleason score, PSA tests, and imaging to ...

New research suggests that cases of stage 4 prostate cancer have gone up since Canada changed guidelines for a screening blood test, known as PSA, but experts disagree about whether screening ...

Here’s a PSA about PSA—meaning a public service announcement about prostate specific antigen. Although checking the PSA levels in your blood is a routine way of screening for prostate cancer, just ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 68-year-old male in good health who exercises regularly, doesn't take any medications, and doesn't have a family history of prostate cancer. During my most recent yearly ...

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening resulted in 13% lower prostate cancer mortality over a median 23 years of follow-up for participants in the European Randomized Study of Screening for ...

Prostate cancer is something that has been on Baltimore resident Jesse Bennett’s radar since he was in his early 40’s. That was when Jesse first had a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level drawn, the ...

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, and four other institutions have devised a novel method to test for prostate cancer using biomarkers ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...