Symptoms of prostate cancer in the elderly

Symptoms of prostate cancer in the elderly? Prostate cancer is a prostate disease that many men are concerned about. Prostate cancer brings great pain to patients. For patients with advanced prostate cancer, death is the best relief, and they will never be tortured by the disease again. So what are the symptoms of prostate cancer in the elderly?

1. Systemic symptoms: The pain affects diet, sleep and spirit. After long-term torture, the whole body condition becomes weaker and weaker, and the patient suffers from progressive anemia, cachexia or renal failure.

2. Pain: Pain in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, hips, pelvis, and sciatica is common and severe and unbearable. It may be caused by cancer metastasis to the bones or invasion of nerves or hydronephrosis and kidney infection. About 31% of patients experience pain.

3. Urinary disorders: 80% of patients experience progressive urination difficulties, thinning or deviated urine flow, bifurcated urine flow, prolonged urination, frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, and a feeling of incomplete urination, etc., caused by cancer. In severe cases, urine dripping and urine retention occur. Only 3% of patients have hematuria.

4. Metastasis symptoms: Metastasis is very common in prostate cancer patients. About 1/3 or even 2/3 of patients have lymph node metastasis when they first see a doctor, mostly in the iliac, iliac, waist, groin and other parts. It can cause lymph node enlargement and lower limb swelling in the corresponding parts. Hematogenous metastasis is more common in bones and internal organs.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of prostate cancer in the elderly. For men with early-stage prostate cancer, these symptoms are not very obvious, so many men will ignore the existence of prostate cancer. However, as time goes by, the symptoms of prostate cancer will become more and more prominent, and the final examination will reveal that it is in the late stage of prostate cancer, so everyone must not be careless.