discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out. and he now runs a charity to raise awareness of the disease. when prostate cancer turns up at your front door, it doesn t care, right, whether you re black, whether you re white. it doesn t care about your wealth. it doesn t care about you. what it will do if you ignore it, it will kill you. 0k, paul. nice and still. larger trials will be needed to confirm the value of mri scans before a national screening programme for prostate cancer could be set up which may take up to a decade. fergus walsh, bbc news. the us president, joe biden, has visited the hawaiian island of maui and offered government support following the deadly wildfires there. nearly two weeks after the disaster which has killed at least 114 people, he s named a federal response co ordinator and says the island s critical infrastructure
aged 50 to 75 who took part in the trial, led by university college london. of the 25 men whose aggressive cancers were picked up via mri, over half, like paul, had negative blood tests. we think these are really significant results. what we see is that a short, ten minute mri scan, used as a screening test, can selectively pick up significant cancers in a much more effective way than the psa blood test alone. that ll help us to diagnose the important cancers early, when they re curable. this is what men over 50 can request from their doctor a blood test for the protein psa. high levels can indicate cancer. so it s a useful test, but unreliable, as it s not always accurate. after he developed prostate cancer, errol mckellar started offering men discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out,
that ll help us to diagnose the important cancers early, when they re curable. the prostate is a walnut sized gland which sits below the bladder. it s the uk s most common male cancer, with 52,000 new diagnoses every year. this is what men over 50 can request from their doctor a blood test for the protein psa. high levels can indicate cancer, so it s a useful test, but unreliable as it s not always accurate. thank you. black men have a one in four risk of getting prostate cancer double that of white men but are less likely to come forward for testing. after he developed prostate cancer, errol mckellar started offering men discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out. and he now runs a charity to raise awareness of the disease.
ten minute mri scan, used as a screening test, can selectively pick up significant cancers in a much more effective way than the psa blood test alone. that ll help us to diagnose the important cancers early, when they re curable. the prostate is a walnut sized gland which sits below the bladder. it s the uk s most common male cancer with 52,000 new diagnoses every year. this is what men over 50 can request from their doctor, a blood test for the protein psa. high levels can indicate cancer, so it s a useful test, but unreliable, as it s not always accurate. after he developed prostate cancer, errol mckellar started offering men discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out, and he now runs a charity to raise awareness of the disease. when prostate cancer turns up at your front door,