The test sorts early cancers according to risk, so many men might be spared over-treatment, researchers say.
Why aren't men screened?
About 75% or three in every four men who get a positive PSA test result are not found to have cancer when they go for a follow-up biopsy.It also cannot show whether a cancer will probably go on to cause harm.Prostate cancer often grows slowly to start with and may never cause any problems.Shea Connell, who led the research, at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, said a bigger trial was now planned.
"Unfortunately, we currently lack the ability to tell which men diagnosed with prostate cancer will need radical treatment and which men will not.
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