{"id":846443,"date":"2026-08-07T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846443\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:58:08","slug":"prostate-cancer-foundation-new-guidelines-mandate-testing-the-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/846443\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostate Cancer Foundation: New guidelines mandate testing | The Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Know your risk:\u00a0You may be at least twice the usual risk if you have\u00a0a brother with prostate cancer, a father diagnosed before age 65, 2 + second degree relatives who died from prostate cancer, Black sub-Saharan ancestry or a BRCA2 mutation also make you high-risk.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the possible benefits and harms with your GP before deciding to test: You can choose to test, opt out, or opt back in. These pathways apply if you choose testing.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the pathway for your age:\u00a0Age 45-49: Routine testing is not recommended if you are not at higher risk. If interested in your prostate health, an initiial test may be offered.\u00a0 Age 50-69: You can decide to test after an informed\u00a0discussion: PSA test every two years.\u00a0 Age 70 +:\u00a0Clinical assessment. Consider life expectancy, other health conditions, values and preferences. Test only if life expectancy is over 7 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Know your risk:\u00a0You may be at least twice the usual risk if you have\u00a0a brother with prostate cancer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-846443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}