Symptoms of prostate cancer

At present, prostate cancer has no obvious symptoms at the beginning, or even no symptoms at all, so that when you finally feel the symptoms, the disease has already developed to the advanced stage. For this situation, the best way is to have regular physical examinations. The following is an introduction to the symptoms of prostate cancer:

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.

The above are the symptoms of prostate cancer. The earlier the treatment is, the easier it is to cure. In the early stage of treatment, the lesion has not spread yet and can be cured. If it is in the middle or late stage, the tumor has spread, and the treatment is only to slow down the spread, then there is basically no possibility of cure.