New urine test can check for prostate cancer and tell how aggressive it is

A NEW urine test can check for prostate cancer and tell how aggressive the disease is.

The ExoGrail test could help to cut invasive biopsies by 35 per cent.

Dr Dan Brewer, of the University of East Anglia, said: “There is a desperate need for improvements in diagnosing and predicting outcomes.”

The new test “allows patients and doctors to select the correct treatment”, he added. 

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK.

About 46,000 people are diagnosed each year, with 11,000 dying.

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