What are the symptoms of recurrence of prostate cancer after surgery

Prostate cancer recurrence includes biochemical recurrence and clinical recurrence.

Biochemical recurrence means that the patient has no subjective symptoms, only the prostate cancer specific antigen is elevated. If the prostate cancer specific antigen is elevated above 0.25ng/L, it indicates the presence of biochemical recurrence, but the patient does not have any symptoms at this time. Clinical recurrence means that the patient has corresponding symptoms, and then the recurrence is found during examination, such as hematuria, which may be a recurrence of prostate cancer, because after recurrence, prostate cancer tissue destroys the parenchymal cells and produces bleeding.

Pain is also an important symptom of prostate cancer recurrence. After prostate cancer relapses, it destroys the surrounding tissues and causes pain in the perineum. Difficulty urinating is also a symptom of recurrence. After prostate cancer relapses, it will block the urethra, causing patients to have difficulty urinating, and then have difficulty urinating, or even symptoms of urine retention. Symptoms of distant organ metastasis, such as pain in the sacrum or low back pain, are symptoms of corresponding bone metastasis caused by prostate cancer recurrence.