What are the common symptoms of prostate cancer in men?

Prostate cancer is a common male disease that has a great impact on men's health. If a man does not go to the hospital for treatment in time after suffering from prostate cancer, it will seriously affect the health of the prostate and even cause greater health problems. So what symptoms will a man experience after he has prostate cancer?

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer?

Since prostate cancer mostly occurs in the posterior lobe, there are no symptoms in the early stage. Even if there is discomfort, it is not enough to attract the patient's attention, which makes early diagnosis difficult. Once obvious clinical symptoms appear, it is often in the late stage of the disease and the prognosis is poor. It can be seen that early detection of symptoms of prostate cancer is very important. Especially for patients with prostatitis and prostatic hypertrophy, who have repeated attacks and are not cured, they should pay close attention to changes in their condition to prevent cancer.

In the early stages, prostate cancer often presents with symptoms such as frequent urination, increased nocturia, difficulty urinating, thinner urine stream, prolonged urination, painful urination, and urine retention, which are the same as those of prostate hyperplasia. Therefore, it is difficult to diagnose prostate cancer based on these symptoms, and diagnosis mainly relies on digital rectal examination.

Rectal examination is extremely important in the early diagnosis of prostate cancer, with an accuracy rate of 50%-70%. Many scholars advocate that regular rectal examinations should be performed on middle-aged and older men in areas with a high incidence of prostate cancer, which will give many patients the opportunity to receive early diagnosis and radical cure.

If necessary, doctors can perform perineal or rectal puncture to obtain biopsy tissue, with a diagnostic accuracy rate of 70%-80%. They can also perform rectal massage of the prostate to collect prostate fluid for examination, with a positive rate of more than 90%. Most cases can be diagnosed in this way.

I hope that the expert’s explanation will be helpful to everyone. Since the incidence of prostate cancer is very high in today’s society, it is recommended that everyone must pay attention to prevention in daily life. If you find that you have a tendency to cancer, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. If you delay treatment until the late stage, it will threaten your life.