What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? How to detect it in life?

Early-stage prostate cancer often has no symptoms.

When prostate tumors progress and invade or block the urethra and bladder neck, symptoms similar to lower urinary tract obstruction or irritation may occur, such as waiting to urinate, difficulty urinating, prolonged urination, interrupted urine flow, incomplete urination, frequent and urgent urination, etc. In severe cases, acute urinary retention, hematuria, and urinary incontinence may occur.

When prostate tumors metastasize to bones, they can cause bone pain, pathological fractures, anemia, spinal cord compression leading to lower limb paralysis, etc.

Of course, the above symptoms do not necessarily mean prostate cancer. Many diseases may have similar symptoms, such as prostate hyperplasia, prostatitis, bladder and urethral infection, neurogenic bladder, bladder stones, bladder tumors, etc., and bone symptoms also need to be differentiated from many orthopedic diseases. Therefore, if you have the above symptoms and they get worse quickly in a short period of time (such as a few months), you need to be vigilant and go to a regular hospital in time to ask a urologist for a systematic examination to make a clear diagnosis. As long as any disease can be discovered in the early stage, it is generally easier to treat, and the effect is often good, and it is very likely to be completely cured.