How to diagnose prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a disease that many male friends often suffer from, especially middle-aged and elderly male friends. However, most people will not have too obvious symptoms after getting this disease. So how should we judge prostate cancer? Let's take a look at it below.

1. Pay attention to whether the urine flow is very slow, whether there is urgency, whether the urine flow is interrupted, whether there is incomplete urination, frequent urination, hematuria, and dysuria. Understand the course and speed of its onset, and whether there is local pain. Bone pain in the pelvis and spine.

2. Rectal examination: Pay attention to the size, shape, hardness, smoothness and presence of nodules in the prostate, and the extent of tumor infiltration. I don’t know if you know that rectal examination is the most commonly used and simple examination method. If irregular nodules are found in the prostate, further transrectal ultrasound examination, serum prostate specific antigen, and even prostate tissue puncture biopsy should be performed.

3. Rectal ultrasound diagnosis can reveal the location, size and density of the tumor, allowing us to make a preliminary diagnosis.

4. Laboratory tests can help determine serum prostate-specific antigen and serum prostate acid phosphatase. This is because prostate-specific antigen has a relatively high specificity and sensitivity for the diagnosis of prostate cancer, so it is an important part of the prostate cancer examination.

5. B-ultrasound examination.

The above is all the content introduced to you. I believe that now everyone has understood how to judge prostate cancer. Since there are almost no symptoms that people can judge prostate cancer at the beginning, it is recommended that friends should have regular check-ups to ensure their health.