Potential national screening scheme offers hope in fight against prostate cancer

One of the UK’s leading experts in prostate cancer has revealed that technological advances mean a national breast cancer-style strategy may finally be possible, and that Britain could start screening for the disease within three to five years.

 

There is currently no national screening programme for the disease, but Professor Ros Eeles, based at the Institute of Cancer Research, hopes that will change.

 

Professor Eeles acknowledged that further data is needed before any strategy is committed to, but hailed advances in both imaging and genetics.

 

She said “We’re probably looking at getting close to a tailored screening programme in the next three to five years.”

 

Currently around 50,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with the disease each year and one in eight will be diagnosed in their lifetime.

 

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