What are the symptoms of mid-to-late stage prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a common disease in men, especially in elderly men. It can cause many symptoms, such as pain, abnormal urination, frequent urination and urgency. It can pose a great threat to men's life and health. Because it is not easy to detect, it is often discovered in the middle or late stages. Some even have symptoms of metastasis, which increases the difficulty of treatment. Therefore, everyone should pay attention to its symptoms. Generally, when prostate cancer develops to the middle or late stages, the following symptoms may occur:

1. Symptoms of urinary dysfunction. 80% of urinary dysfunction is caused by cancer. This can cause patients with prostate cancer to have progressive urinary difficulties, or thin and deviated urine flow, or bifurcated urine flow and prolonged urination. More patients will experience frequent urination, urgency, pain, and a feeling of incomplete urination. For some severe patients, dribbling urine and urine retention may occur, and some may even have hematuria.

2. Pain may occur in the middle and late stages of prostate cancer, and the pain may occur in many places, the most common of which are the waist, sacrum, sciatica, etc. These are relatively common. Sometimes it can cause unbearable pain. This is mainly due to the metastasis of cancer to the bones or invasion of nerves or pain caused by hydronephrosis and kidney infection. About 31% of patients will experience pain symptoms.

3. When prostatitis develops to the late stage, some metastatic symptoms will appear. Some patients will have lymph node metastasis when they first visit the doctor. Generally, the metastatic sites occur in the iliac and iliac regions, as well as the waist and groin. When metastasis occurs, the lymph nodes in the corresponding parts and the lower limbs may swell. Hematogenous metastasis is generally seen in bones and internal organs.

4. Patients in the middle and late stages may also develop some systemic symptoms, and the emergence of these systemic symptoms is mainly caused by pain, such as loss of appetite, affecting sleep and spirit. Long-term pain can cause patients to become increasingly weak, emaciated and weak, and may develop symptoms such as anemia, cachexia or renal failure.

What are the symptoms of prostate cancer in the middle and late stages? The above are some of its common symptoms. It can be seen that the disease is very harmful to the patient when it develops to the middle and late stages, and the difficulty of treatment will also increase. Therefore, it is recommended that prostate cancer should be discovered and treated in time to achieve a better prognosis. When middle-aged and elderly men have some of the above symptoms, they must pay attention to it and take timely inspections and prevention measures to reduce the harm.