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Prostate cancer

July 2024

  • An illustration showing silhouettes of a man smoking, a woman drinking, hands holding a pot of sunscreen, a knife, fork and spoon and a white ribbon

    The experts
    The experts: oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

    Cancer doctors know better than anyone how you can give yourself the best possible chance of avoiding a disease that one in two of us will get. Here, they share the tips that they live by

June 2024

  • Large screen showing implements inside body

    Scientists develop glowing dye that sticks to cancer cells in breakthrough study

  • Elliot Pfebve in a hospital chair is treated by Hayley Rolfe in a blue NHS uniform

    ‘Off the charts’: the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer

May 2024

  • Three middle-aged men walking across the South Downs way.

    Scientists develop cheap and quick spit test for prostate cancer

    DNA test, which takes seconds to collect, can detect men at high risk and spare others unnecessary treatment

April 2024

  • Prostate cancer trial<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY MAY 1 File photo dated 05/06/2020 of a paramedic holding a test tube containing a blood sample. Methods of screening men for prostate cancer are set to be trialled in a bid to save thousands of lives in the UK each year. The £42 million project, known as Transform, has been hailed as "a pivotal moment in the history of prostate cancer research" by experts. It is also hoped the research will help men avoid harm from potentially unnecessary biopsies and treatment. Issue date: Wednesday May 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Prostate. Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

    Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

  • Sebastian and Teresa

    This is how we do it
    This is how we do it: ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’

  • MRI scanner in hospital

    Cheaper, quicker prostate cancer scans just as accurate ‘and can help more men’

  • A doctor holding a pen and piece of paper sits opposite a male patient

    Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds

March 2024

  • Aerial view of the hands of a scientist pouring fluid with the pipette into a petri dish.

    Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute

    Tests that can identify early changes in cells would give doctors more time to offer treatment, say Cambridge researchers

February 2024

  • A woman in a white lab coat looks through a microscope.

    Study offers hope in identifying high-risk prostate cancer patients

  • Simon Jenkins

    Let King Charles’s illness finally change how we speak about cancer: it’s not about ‘winning’ or ‘losing’ a ‘war’

    Simon Jenkins
  • Prostate cancer radiotherapy surgery. Radiologist inserting a hollow needle through a template grid (black square) and through a patient's perineal skin, during a treatment for prostate cancer. Montsouris institut, Paris, France.<br>EHN446 Prostate cancer radiotherapy surgery. Radiologist inserting a hollow needle through a template grid (black square) and through a patient's perineal skin, during a treatment for prostate cancer. Montsouris institut, Paris, France.

    Genetics may help explain Black men’s high prostate cancer risk, say scientists

  • Michael Dolan, 75 from Cheltenham - Tetbury, Gloucestetrshire, Uk. Vox pop interview by Jessica Murray for The Guardain.

    ‘Huge blow’: King Charles’s Highgrove neighbours saddened by cancer news

January 2024

  • Person jogging at night beside street lamp

    Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds

    Increase in cardiorespiratory levels of 3% annually found to be beneficial, Swedish research suggests

October 2023

  • Scientist looking into a microscope.

    New prostate cancer treatment may be ‘on the horizon’, say scientists

    Ability to reverse cancer’s resistance to therapy opens possibility of treatment for late-diagnosed men

September 2023

  • An oncologist at the Royal Marsden hospital studies a scan of a prostate cancer patient

    Radiotherapy doses for prostate cancer could be cut by three-quarters, trial finds

    Five higher multibeam doses found to be as effective as 20 smaller doses delivered over several weeks

August 2023

  • Man entering MRI scanner

    MRI scanning could lead to major cut in prostate cancer deaths, UK study finds

    Research found MRI is significantly more accurate than current tests, which are linked to overdiagnosis and overtreatment

July 2023

  • Stock image of a patient receiving chemotheraphy

    Patient dies and three hospitalised in Sciensus chemotherapy incident

    Exclusive: Regulators investigate after patients received unlicensed treatment from firm paid millions by NHS

May 2023

  • The study suggests that men who put on two stone before reaching the age of 30 are 27% more likely to die from prostate cancer in old age than those who maintain their teenage weight.

    Study finds weight gain early in life increases risk of prostate cancer death by 27%

    Decades-long study involving over 250,000 Swedish men establishes strong link to risk of fatal prostate cancer

April 2023

  • Scan for breast cancer

    NHS in England to offer pioneering cancer drug to patients with ‘Jolie gene’

    Health watchdog reverses decision not to recommend olaparib for patients with genetic fault
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