The fight for men to get prostate cancer screening is set to continue.

An NHS body is expected to say that only a few thousand men who have a risk gene will be invited for regular tests.

Campaigners like cyclist Chris Hoy and former PM David Cameron have been calling for all men over a certain age to be invited for regular prostate cancer screening, like breast screening for women. New Feature

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But the National Screening Committee (NSC) is set to say this would mean too many men get harmful cancer treatments for slow-growing tumours that would never have caused harm.

In men with a prostate cancer risk gene, however, the screening is more worthwhile. The genes, called BRCA1 and BRCA2, are usually seen as breast and ovarian cancer

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