Standard medical practice is to not test men who have a life expectancy of less than 10 years for prostate cancer.

Former President Joe Biden had not been screened for prostate cancer in the last decade before discovering an aggressive form of the disease last week, according to Biden’s office. “President Biden’s last known PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen test) was in 2014,

It’s not perfect in detecting it, and sometimes it’s elevated in patients that don’t have cancer, so it’s kind of waning in and out as far as a screening tool. But most of us feel now that you should be screened once yearly with a PSA,