Good prostate cancer screening tests have led to early diagnosis in about 80% of men with the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, all of these men survive at least five years. Screening alone is credited for one-third of the recent decrease in prostate cancer deaths.<\/p>\n
Both DRE<\/a> and PSA tests<\/a> can detect signs that might be from prostate cancer. A PSA test is more accurate. But sometimes in a DRE, a physician can feel something abnormal that turns out to be cancer, even if a man\u2019s PSA level is normal. Neither test can confirm the presence of cancer for certain. For this, you need a biopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good prostate cancer screening tests have led to early diagnosis in about 80% of men with the disease.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46,3776,75904],"class_list":["post-181650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-prostate-cancer-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}