Who should get a prostate cancer screening?

Who should get a prostate cancer screening?

Mark Vogel (Board Certified Urologist) gives expert video advice on: Who should get a prostate cancer screening?; Why is early prostate cancer detection important?; What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? and more...

Current recommendations are, are that at the beginning age of 40, men should be screened with a prostate examination looking for prostate cancer. This also will uncover men who have colon cancer, and that's certainly another very common malignancy. By age 50, we believe that all men should have prostate cancer screening by examination, and we would also add a blood test at that point.