"Our National Cancer Plan will transform the way we treat cancer, making the UK a world leader in cancer survival by fighting the disease on all fronts, through improving research, diagnosis, screening, treatment and prevention.
"The UK National Screening Committee is reviewing the evidence for prostate cancer screening programmes, including targeted approaches for men at higher risk.
The UK's National Screening Committee, which advises the Department of Health, is reviewing the evidence on prostate cancer screening.
Chiara De Biase, director of health services, equity and improvement from Prostate Cancer UK, said men were dying unnecessarily as a result.
Thousands of men are to be checked for prostate cancer in one of the first large-scale European trials of smart screening.
