Prostate cancer

What it is

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in many countries, often slow-growing and found by PSA blood tests, sometimes aggressive. It is in the news because screening advice is shifting, because active surveillance has replaced surgery for many low-risk cases, and because radioligand therapy and new hormonal drugs are extending survival in advanced disease. The central debate is overdiagnosis: PSA finds cancers that would never have caused harm, so guidelines ask men to weigh the trade-off with a doctor.

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