The health secretary says he will balance the arguments for and against mass testing ahead of a final decision due in March.

IT affects one in eight men, and so it seems logical to have a prostate cancer screening programme. And yet, in a pivotal ...

Prostate cancer screening should not be made routinely available for the vast majority of men in the UK, a committee advising ...

Mass population testing for prostate cancer will not see men proactively invited for the PSA blood test - here is all you ...

The national committee of doctors and economists advising the government says the harms outweigh the benefits for screening ...

It recommends that only men with a confirmed genetic risk of prostate cancer should be screened for the disease.

ROANOKE, Va. – It’s estimated that more than 42,000 people will die from breast cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society. To help you understand if you’re at a greater risk of ...

In late December of 2013, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) provided an update to its 2005 recommendations, reaffirming the genetic risk assessment and breast cancer susceptibility gene ...

An affordable new BRCA gene test has hit the market, but who should take it? — -- A new genetic testing kit that hits the market today is the most affordable, and arguably one of the simplest, ...

About 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. But the proportion who develop the common cancer as a result of a genetic mutation — namely to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes — is ...

It might feel like your world stops after receiving a diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer. Even in that mental and emotional fog, there are several next steps to consider. Coming up with a treatment ...

Hayden Becker and his family distributed hundreds of BRCA mutation test kits to members of Park Avenue Synagogue. This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism ...