A simple at-home spit test could be used to identify men at risk of developing prostate cancer and save thousands of lives, research suggests. Preliminary findings presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago suggest it is more accurate than the standard blood test as an early assessment tool for the disease, which claims around 12,000 lives a year in the UK.
With PSA tests, only 25% of men with a high PSA level will actually have prostate cancer, the researchers said. This is because the test is not accurate enough and can falsely indicate cancer in men three out of our times, and can miss cancers requiring urgent treatment and detect ones that are unlikely to ever be life-threatening.
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