UK National Screening Committee rejects call from Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy to offer PSA test to all men at higher risk of prostate cancer

UK National Screening Committee rejects call from Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy to offer PSA test to all men at higher risk of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the UK but unlike breast, bowel and lung cancer, there is currently no national screening programme.

Only men with a specific gene variant and a family history of certain cancers should be screened, experts have said.

Black men have double the risk of prostate cancer

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Yesterday's recommendation from the UK National Screening Committee will leave many men wondering whether the evidence will ever be enough.

Under the recommendations most men will be excluded from the cancer screening programme but two high risk groups will be offered checks