Experts call for early stage prostate cancer to be reclassified as pre-cancer

Experts call for early stage prostate cancer to be reclassified as pre-cancer A radical rethink in the way prostate cancer is diagnosed could be on the cards – with experts calling to reclassify the earliest stage tumours as 'pre-cancer', The Mail on Sunday has learned.

Every year roughly 50,000 men in the UK are told they have the disease, and the move would effectively see this figure cut in half.

Mounting evidence suggests patients with these tiny tumours don't usually need to start treatment. Instead they can simply be monitored with regular blood tests and scans to ensure the tumours don't start to spread.