Guidelines aim to clarify prostate testing

OLDER men who wish to undergo checks for prostate cancer will be given a PSA test every two years, under new draft guidelines.

OLDER men who request prostate cancer testing will be offered a test every two years, proposed guidelines developed by Australia's leading cancer agencies say.

THE guidelines, released on Thursday at the World Cancer Congress in Melbourne, aim to address the long-standing issue in the medical community of whether to offer men a blood test to check for prostate cancer.