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For men aged 45 and over, there is therefore statutory cancer detection, which, however, includes an unpleasant and often painful tactile examination.This is precisely this should now be omitted in the context of a guideline adjustment, says the German specialist society for urology.This relief for patients is also intended as an incentive to regularly perceive the possibility of early cancer.The so-called PSA test should be more to the fore for the early detection.The prostate-specific antigen is measured in the blood.In the event of tissue changes, the value usually increases.However, this can also have other causes, it does not necessarily have to put a malignant illness behind it.Therefore, the new guidelines as part of primary diagnostics also provide for strengthening magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example to review striking PSA values.