New prostate cancer screening guidelines recommend regular PSA testing for most older men.

What it means

The American Cancer Society has updated its prostate cancer screening guidelines for the first time in over a decade, now recommending regular PSA blood tests for most men aged 50 to 69 every two years. For Black men and those with a family history of prostate cancer, the guidelines recommend annual screening starting at age 45. This marks a shift from earlier caution about PSA testing due to false positives, driven by rising rates of advanced prostate cancer.

Accuracy & sourcesGrounded

The claim is solid and well-sourced. The primary source is the American Cancer Society's updated guideline, published in its peer-reviewed journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and announced via an ACS press release on November 12, 2026. Multiple major news outlets (NBC News, Washington Post, STAT News, etc.) report directly on the same guideline, so the reporting sits close to the primary source.

How new

Genuinely new: the guidelines were published on November 12, 2026, and the news coverage is from that same day.

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• NBC News — first to publish