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What are the symptoms of prostate cancer

BY Berton Gladstone 2020-07-24

  What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? Prostate cancer refers to an epithelial malignant tumor that occurs in the prostate. The pathological types of prostate cancer include adenocarcinoma (acinar adenocarcinoma), ductal adenocarcinoma, urothelial carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. 1. Adenosquamous carcinoma, of which prostate adenocarcinoma accounts for more than 95%. Therefore, it is usually referred to as "prostate cancer".

  The incidence of prostate cancer in men The proportion of malignant tumor incidence is higher. In general, the incidence of prostate cancer increases with the age of men, and it is less common before 55 years of age. The age of onset of patients with familial inherited prostate cancer is earlier, and about half of them develop the disease before the age of 55.

  The early symptoms of prostate cancer include frequent urination, urgency, and dysuria, similar to prostatitis.

  1. Difficulty urinating, frequent urination, and urgency

  Prostate cancer symptoms are difficulty urinating, thinning or urinary flow deflection, or bifurcation of urinary flow, prolonged urination , Frequent urination, urgency, dysuria, incontinence, etc. In severe cases, urine drips and urinary retention occurs. Tumor compression of the rectum can cause difficulty in bowel movements or intestinal obstruction. It can also compress the vas deferens and cause ejaculation deficiency. The compression of the nerves causes pain in the perineum and can radiate to the sciatic nerve.

  2. Pain in the waist, hips, hips

  Pain in the waist, sacrums, hips, hips, pelvis, sciatica are common pain symptoms of prostate cancer.

  3. Lymph node metastasis

  Symptoms of prostate cancer mostly occur in the intra- and extra-iliac regions, the waist, and the groin, which can cause lymphadenopathy and swelling of the lower limbs in the corresponding parts. Prostate cancer is often prone to bone metastases, causing bone pain or pathological fractures and paraplegia. Prostate cancer can also invade the bone marrow to cause anemia or a reduction in whole blood.

  4. Systemic symptoms

  As the disease progresses, due to pain affecting diet, sleep and mentality, after a long period of torture, the patient''s body is gradually weakening, losing weight and fatigue, and may even be concurrent with progress Anemia, cachexia, or renal failure.

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