Thousands set for 20-min prostate cancer checks

THOUSANDS more men can be screened for prostate cancer thanks to a painless 20-minute test. A study found ultrasound scans are 95 per cent as accurate at picking up tumours as the gold-standard MRI. 1 Men can have a quicker and cheaper test to see how their prostate is doing Credit: Getty And they take just half the time and cost £50 instead of £250. Medics say the simple scans can speed up diagnosis for the most common cancer in the UK, with 52,000 cases per year. Professor Hashim Ahmed, of Imperial College London, said: “MRI scans are one of… Read Full Article