A blood test can detect prostate cancer with more than 90 per cent accuracy, a study reveals.
Men who visit their GP with symptoms, such as straining while urinating, have a blood test called a PSA test.
But this is inaccurate, meaning thousands of men are wrongly told they may have prostate cancer and can be sent for a painful biopsy or MRI scan unnecessarily.
A new blood test has achieved far better accuracy – giving positive results which are 92 per cent accurate when tested on 147 men. When the same men were given the standard PSA test, their positive results were only 14 per cent accurate. The method was developed by a spin-off company of former Oxford University scientists. It looks for changes in immune cells within the blood, which flag up changes in gene activity seen in the early stages of cancer.
Yes, men, a gland the size of a walnut can kill you if you ignore it. Get checked.
Damn…..good news.for a change.
Get tested, boys! Dying of prostate cancer is a bad way to go.