Editor's note: William Martin is a professor at Rice University who has lectured on sociology and wrote books on religion, as well as a memoir about surviving prostate cancer. My prostate and I were not exactly strangers. At first, I hardly noticed its ...

This early stage is often detected through routine screenings, such as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and a digital rectal exam (DRE), before any symptoms arise. Because the disease is limited, the prognosis for stage 1 prostate cancer is generally excellent. The two main factors used to classify your cancer are:

Prostate cancer is a serious disease that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Health experts say most people are diagnosed before it can spread to other parts of the body. Otherwise the disease can be difficult to cure. On May 18, a ...

News that former President Joseph Biden has advanced prostate cancer has revived long-standing questions about the benefits versus the harms of a blood test that screens for the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the U.S. Prostate-specific antigen ...

Corayer has used his platform, and his cancer fight, to push more men to talk to their doctors about prostate cancer.