DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 3 -- SCIENTISTS from the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital recently pioneered a test that diagnoses aggressive prostate cancer and predicts whether patients will require treatment up to five years earlier than standard clinical methods.
This means that men don't have to go to the hospital to provide a urine sample or have to undergo an uncomfortable rectal examination.
Instead, Prostate Urine Risk (PUR) test can be performed on samples collected at home.
According to the scientists, this is a breakthrough in cancer research b ecause "the first urination of the day provides biomarker levels from the prostate that are much higher and more consistent and the research team hopes tha...