Prostate cancer screening should not be offered to most men in the UK, say government advisers

Prostate cancer screening should not be made available to the vast majority of men in the UK, a committee advising the government has said.

In a draft recommendation, the UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) said it does not recommend population-wide screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, because doing so would be “likely to cause more harm than good”.