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 req uire treatment up to five years earlier than standard clinical methods.
This means that men don't have to go to hospital to provide a urine sample or have to undergo an uncomfortable rectal ex amination. Instead, Prostate Urine Risk (PUR) test can b e performed on samples collected at home.
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