What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? What is advanced prostate cancer like?

Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from prostate cancer. This disease is very painful for men. Therefore, in order to find out whether you have this disease as soon as possible, it is very necessary to correctly understand and master the symptoms of this disease. So, what are the symptoms of prostate cancer? Experts have answers for everyone.

1. Local enlargement of the tumor

If the prostate tumor progressively enlarges locally and compresses the prostate urethra, symptoms of prostate cancer may include urination disorders, such as progressive dysuria, frequent urination, urgency, pain, and a feeling of incomplete urination. In severe cases, urine dripping and urine retention may occur. These symptoms are similar to those of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BpH), which can easily lead to misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis, delaying early diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

2. Prostate cancer metastasis

When prostate cancer metastasizes to the bones, it can cause bone pain at the metastatic site, which is also a common symptom of prostate cancer. Common sites of bone metastasis include the spine, hip bones, ribs, and shoulder blades. About 60% of advanced patients experience bone pain, which is common in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, hip pelvis. Bone pain has different manifestations. Some patients may experience persistent pain, while some patients experience intermittent pain. Bone pain can be limited to a specific part of the body, or it can manifest as migratory pain in different parts of the body; bone pain may vary at different times of the day and respond differently to rest and activity.

3. Advanced prostate cancer

For advanced prostate cancer, symptoms of prostate cancer may include fatigue, weight loss, body pain, etc. Because the pain seriously affects diet, sleep and mental state, after long-term torture, the whole body condition becomes weaker and weaker, and anemia progresses, and eventually the whole body fails and cachexia occurs.

After reading the above introduction to prostate cancer, I hope everyone has a certain understanding of this knowledge. At the same time, if male friends find that they have similar symptoms of prostate cancer, they must go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to avoid the deterioration of the disease.