ACS NPCRT Prostate Cancer Screening Toolkit for Primary Care Clinicians
The American Cancer Society National Prostate Cancer Roundtable (ACS NPCRT) developed this digital toolkit to promote awareness of best practices around prostate cancer screening, and to facilitate the adoption of those practices among healthcare systems and providers. Moreover, the toolkit provides guidance around basic risk assessment practices to help clinicians to identify patients who would benefit most from prostate cancer screening, as well as conversation guides to support informed discussions with patients about screening and follow-up testing options. This toolkit will be periodically updated to reflect best practices as they evolve over time.
To get started, expand each section below to explore relevant tools, guides, and templates. The sections include materials to support practices and clinicians. Resources are available for download directly from the sections below. You can use the materials as they are or adapt them to fit the needs of your organization or setting.
This toolkit was framed around three screening guidelines: the American Cancer Society (2026), the American Urological Association (2023; amended 2026), and the United States Preventative Services Task Force (2018). However, the information in this toolkit is “guideline agnostic” unless otherwise indicated, and represents the current evidence-based best practices in prostate cancer risk assessment and screening.
Evidentiary support for these practices is provided throughout the toolkit documents, but especially in the PowerPoint deck titled “2026 Prostate Cancer Screening – What Primary Care Clinicians Need to Know.” It is recommended that all users of this toolkit begin by reviewing the information in this slide deck. From there, please proceed to the “Prostate Cancer Screening Toolkit Overview” to learn more about how to best utilize the resources in this toolkit. For more information or to schedule technical support related to this toolkit, please contact the ACS NPCRT via email at NPCRT@cancer.org.
The ACS NPCRT would like to acknowledge the efforts of the individuals who contributed their time and expertise to this project:
Project Chair:
Richard C. Wender, MD; University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Family Practice Physician, Screening Guidelines Expert
Project Committee:
Yaw A. Nyame, MD, MBA, MS; University of Washington Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Urologist, ACS NPCRT Vice-Chair
Phillip Rodgers, MD; University of Michigan School of Medicine
Family Practice Physician, ACS NPCRT Steering Committee
Molly Black; American Cancer Society
Director, Early Detection
Melissa Thomas, PhD, MSPH, MSA, MCHES®, C.CHW, FAACE; American Cancer Society
Strategic Director, ACS National Breast Cancer Roundtable
Project Director:
Lucas J. Brand, PhD; American Cancer Society
Strategic Director, ACS NPCRT
Research and Development Services:
Ohlander Consulting Services, Inc.
How to Use This Toolkit
Use this overviewof the toolkit to identify where to start based on your current screening approach.
