What are the symptoms of late-stage prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is also divided into early and late stages. Whether you find abnormalities in prostate cancer during a physical examination or go for a checkup when you find something abnormal, if it is in the early stages, it will be easier to control, and of course the prognosis will be better. It may even not affect your normal life after treatment because of timely treatment. However, because prostate cancer does not have any special abnormal symptoms in the early stages, and when it is discovered, it is already in the late stages, and there may even be metastasis. So what symptoms will prostate cancer show in patients in the late stages?

1. In fact, symptoms such as frequent urination, urgent urination, and difficulty urinating usually occur in the early stages of prostate cancer. Timely examination at this time can quickly control the disease. However, if prostate cancer develops to the late stage without timely treatment, the symptoms will be more serious. When prostate cancer develops to the late stage, physical fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, and pain all over the body will occur. The pain will seriously affect diet and sleep. Such long-term torture will make the body very weak, not only with anemia symptoms but also obvious weight loss.

2. However, when the symptoms of prostate cancer develop to the late stage, the cancer will metastasize. In particular, metastasis to the bones is very common. At this time, the bone pain in the metastatic site will be significantly aggravated. The spine, hip bones, ribs and shoulder blades may all be the targets of prostate cancer metastasis. However, more than half of patients with advanced prostate cancer will experience bone pain, the most common of which is pain in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, hip and pelvis. Bone pain has different symptoms, and some of them will manifest as persistent pain. That is, pain in different places may exist within a day. However, it is also necessary to check clearly, sometimes bone pain is not necessarily caused by prostate cancer metastasis.

3. Of course, half or even more of the prostate cancer patients will metastasize cancer cells through the lymph nodes, and some will even metastasize to the lymph nodes when there are abnormal conditions in the body. The groin, mediastinum, supraclavicular and other parts can be metastasized through lymph nodes or lymphatic tissue. After metastasis, the lymph nodes will have obvious swelling symptoms. The swelling may also compress the blood vessels, which will cause obvious symptoms of swelling of the lower limbs and scrotum.

Although bone metastasis and lymph node metastasis are common and serious symptoms of advanced prostate cancer, patients can also suffer serious physical damage due to metastasis. If there is spinal metastasis at this time, the spinal nerves will be compressed, and severe cases can cause paralysis. However, pelvic lymph nodes can also metastasize widely. At this time, there will be obvious urination obstruction due to cancer compression. Not only will there be symptoms of oliguria, but there may also be nausea and vomiting. If there is a combined infection, there will also be physical characteristics of fever.