New blood test is 92% accurate at spotting signs of prostate cancer, study says

New blood test is 92% accurate at spotting signs of prostate cancer, study says A blood test can detect prostate cancer with more than 90 per cent accuracy, a study reveals.

Men who visit their GP with symptoms, such as straining while urinating, have a blood test called a PSA test.

But this is inaccurate, meaning thousands of men are wrongly told they may have prostate cancer and can be sent for a painful biopsy or MRI scan unnecessarily. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Circulating Chromosome Conformation Signatures Significantly Enhance PSA Positive Predicting Value and Overall Accuracy for Prostate Cancer Detection (open access) Cancers