The first patient was enrolled this month in a Nanostics-sponsored clinical utility study in Calgary to quantify the impact of incorporating ClarityDX Prostate into the standard of care for the ...

Nearly all men with a polygenic risk score in the 90th percentile or above had a 10-year absolute risk for prostate cancer exceeding 3.8%. A polygenic risk score (PRS) identifies more patients with ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer that affects men. Understanding what it is, who is at risk and how ...

HealthDay News — A biomarker consisting primarily of microRNA-based germline biomarkers (mirSNPs), PROSTOX, is valid for predicting radiotherapy (RT)-induced genitourinary (GU) toxicity in patients ...

Future studies will track men with high polygenic risk scores to see whether they go on to develop prostate cancer. But it could be years before the spit tests become standard practice due to the ...

A SIMPLE spit test for prostate cancer is better than current NHS checks for the disease, a new study reveals. It could also spare blokes unnecessary GP visits and awkward exams. Scientists at the ...

Out of 745 men with a high score, 468 were prepared to have the extra tests, and 187 were found to have prostate cancer. Of those that had prostate cancer, 103 had higher risk tumours that needed ...

A new spit test for prostate ... a polygenic risk score, which uses spit to assess 130 genetic variants known to be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, which can then determine ...

A new at-home saliva test for ... a polygenic risk score. This risk score uses spit to assess 130 genetic variants known to be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer.

Researchers have developed a simple spit test ... risk score. This risk score uses spit to assess 130 genetic variants known to be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer and then ...