4 types of clinical manifestations of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a common male malignancy. What are the clinical symptoms? Let’s take a look!

Urinary disorders: Urinary disorders caused by prostate cancer include progressive urinary difficulty, frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, incomplete urination, etc. In severe cases, urine dripping and urine retention may occur. This is usually caused by the progressive enlargement of the prostate tumor, which compresses the prostate urethra.

Ureteral obstruction: When prostate cancer invades the bladder base or pelvic lymph nodes are widely metastatic, unilateral or bilateral ureteral obstruction may occur, which can manifest as oliguria, anuria, back pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever when combined with infection.

Bone pain: Common sites of prostate cancer bone metastasis include the spine, hip bones, ribs and shoulder blades. 60% of patients with advanced prostate cancer will experience bone pain, which is common in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, hip pelvis, etc. It can manifest as persistent pain or intermittent pain.

Systemic symptoms: Advanced prostate cancer may present with systemic symptoms, such as fatigue, body aches, loss of appetite, insomnia, weight loss, anemia, etc., and eventually systemic failure and cachexia.

It is important to note that the symptoms of prostate cancer are sometimes similar to those of benign prostatic hyperplasia, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis, thus delaying early diagnosis and treatment of the disease. If you have the above symptoms, you must go to the hospital to check for prostate cancer.