article_snippet.sent: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, with more than 40,000 new cases diagnosed every year.
article_snippet.sent: In many cases Prostate cancer develops slowly and patients may simply be monitored rather than actively treated.
article_snippet.sent: But in cases where Prostate cancer is more aggressive, even after treatment there is a high risk of recurrence.
article_snippet.sent: Once Researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute have been treated, men are monitored with regular blood tests that check for a protein called prostate specific antigen or PSA, which can indicate cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Men with a PSADT of less than three months are at high risk of dying from prostate cancer.
article_snippet.sent: Around 11,000 men in the UK die from the disease a year.
article_snippet.sent: The number of men in Britain with, or who have had, prostate cancer .