What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? Is urination difficulty a manifestation of prostate cancer?

Prostate cancer is a relatively complicated disease, so its symptoms are certainly relatively complicated. Moreover, many male friends now do not understand prostate cancer very well and have not taken any measures to deal with it. So now let us all take a look at the symptoms of prostate cancer.

1. Urinary dysfunction

Dysuria is one of the late symptoms of prostate cancer. About 80% of patients will experience progressive dysuria, thinning or deviated urine flow. Some patients will experience bifurcated urine flow, prolonged urination, frequent urination, urgency, pain, and a feeling of incomplete urination. In severe cases, urine dripping and urine retention may occur. Only 3% of patients have hematuria.

2. Pain

Clinically, about 31% of prostate cancer patients experience pain. The pain is most common in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, and hips. Pelvic and sciatica pain are common and severe and unbearable. It may be caused by cancer metastasis to the bones or invasion of nerves or hydronephrosis and kidney infection.

3. Systemic symptoms

Because prostate cancer patients will experience some systemic symptoms, such as pain, long-term pain will affect the patient's diet, sleep and spirit, making the patient's overall condition gradually weak, followed by weight loss and fatigue, progressive anemia, and eventually develop cachexia or renal failure.

4. Metastatic symptoms

In the late stage of prostate cancer, patients will also experience some symptoms of metastatic cancer due to tumor metastasis. About 1/3 or even 2/3 of patients have lymph node metastasis when they first see a doctor, mostly in the internal iliac, external iliac, waist, groin and other parts. It can cause enlarged lymph nodes in the corresponding parts and swelling of the lower limbs.

The disease of prostate cancer mainly affects a person's urination. However, if a person suffers from prostate cancer for a long time, every aspect of his body will be greatly affected, and may even lead to death. Finally, I hope the above knowledge can help everyone.