{"id":831993,"date":"2026-08-31T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:48:08","slug":"what-men-need-to-know-about-psa-screening-for-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831993\/","title":{"rendered":"What men need to know about PSA screening for prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UIQQPJX7WFGBXJUL5D4PS2BYDQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Why doesn\u2019t my doctor automatically order a PSA test to screen for prostate cancer? Shouldn\u2019t all men be tested regularly?<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4K6XSOQJLVA43FHSIHZAAQN3QA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">With over 330,000 new cases estimated for 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/04\/12\/prostate-cancer-diagnosis-symptoms-treatments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2024\/04\/12\/prostate-cancer-diagnosis-symptoms-treatments\/\">prostate cancer<\/a> accounts for almost one-third of all invasive cancers in men. It is the fifth leading cause of male cancer-related deaths worldwide. Because prostate cancer is slow-growing, and symptoms may not occur for years after it develops, you might think that everyone who has a prostate (a walnut-sized gland that sits below the bladder) should get a blood test for prostate specific antigen, or PSA, which can detect it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why doesn\u2019t my doctor automatically order a PSA test to screen for prostate cancer? Shouldn\u2019t all men be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-831993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}