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 president of spain has condemned the action after the world cup victory. here they are in a picture taken after the incident. he said the kiss on the lips was an unacceptable gesture, and the
the standard psa blood test, which came back as normal. if ijust had the blood test, i would be carrying on life as normal, walking around unaware that there was some sort of ticking time bomb inside me of a cancer slowly growing. so by the time i then did find out, presumably it would have been much harder to treat, and much more dangerous to me. so you feel fortunate? yeah, very fortunate. i m, you know, thrilled that i was diagnosed so early. we don t see any sign of cancer recurrence there. paul was among 300 men 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.
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,
One in eight men are being diagnosed with prostate cancer and 12,000 die every year. We must fast-track MRI scanning that can detect cancers better than blood tests, says Tim Newark.
at the base of the bladder. early prostate cancer often has no symptoms, but later, these can include peeing more often or weak flow. blood in the urine is another warning sign men should get checked out. paul rothwell feels fortunate. his prostate cancer was caught early at london s university college hospital, after he took part in a trial using mri scans. the 62 year old s cancer would have been missed if he d only had the standard psa blood test, which came back as negative. if ijust had the blood test, i would be carrying on life as normal, walking around unaware that there was some sort of ticking time bomb inside me of a cancer slowly growing. and by the time i then did find out, presumably, it would have been much harder to treat and much more dangerous to me. we don t see any sign of cancer recurrence there, so. paul was among 300 men