Final decision in the coming weeks on national prostate screening15 Mar 2026 18:54
NHS Screening committee to review there previous decision on prostate screening for everybody as Germany releases results of the biggest ever trial done to date
If this gets the go ahead imagine implementing the OBD episwitch test for the UK population. I will remind you of the stats again:
Accuracy 94%
NPV. 95%
PPV 93%
Specificity 97%
Sensitivity 86%
And donβt forget it was also DIRECTLY referenced by the NHS screening committee. If they could agree a contract with the committee just imagine the volume shifted with that.
Now a new study in Germany HAS FINALLY CONCLUDED.
The new research analysed results from the PROBASE trial of just over 39,000 men having prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests in combination with MRI scans, and compared them with those from 2.8 million women having a mammogram as part of Germany's breast cancer screening programme.
Professor Sam Hare, a former National Specialty Adviser Imaging for NHS England said: "The PROBASE trial lends further weight behind a risk-stratified, PSA and MRI-based approach to screening for prostate cancer, in a study population that is similar to the UK."
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/prostate-ca
The screening committee is now going to review this study which puts OBD directly on the radar again
This could be transformational