Calls Grow for NHS to Revise Prostate Cancer Testing Guidelines

New evidence suggests that proactive PSA testing could save lives, prompting demands for updated NHS guidelines.

Labour MP Clive Efford, a prostate cancer survivor, advocates for changes in NHS guidelines to proactively offer PSA tests to high-risk men.
Efford's prostate cancer was caught early after he insisted on a PSA test, despite initial reluctance from his doctors.
Prostate Cancer UK highlights new research showing that modern diagnostic methods have reduced the harms of PSA testing by 79%.
Current NHS guidelines require men to request a PSA test, which critics argue leads to late diagnoses and unnecessary deaths.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with over 52,000 cases annually, yet there is no national screening program.