News & Views Why not screening for... Why not screening for prostate cancer is justified Editor's Choice BMJ 2026; 393 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2026-894967 Cite this as: BMJ 2026;393:e894967 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief Author affiliations kabbasi@bmj.com The debate on prostate cancer screening is life, the universe, and everything boiled down to one question — and the answer isn’t 42.