Similar to many other type of cancers, prostate cancer symptoms do not manifest until in later stages.
It does not show many symptoms in its early stages because their conditions can have similar symptoms to prostate cancer.
Nonetheless, early detection of prostate cancer is important.
Early symptoms of Prostate Cancer
Below are prostate cancer symptoms but by having any of the symptoms does not necessarily mean you have prostate cancer.
What you need to do is to check their development closely.
The common signs should be a change in your bladder habits,
* Urinate more frequently.
* Wake up several times at night to urinate.
* Urgency and tense during urination.
* Difficult to get your urine to flow or start and stop.
* Sometimes you cannot urinate at all.
* Weak or decreased urine and a stoppage in urine flow.
* Feel not completely empty even after you finished urination.
* Experiencing pain or burning sensation while urinating.
* Blood in your urine or semen and pain during orgasm.
If you experienced several of the symptoms above, consult your doctor and get them checked.
When the prostate cancer symptoms are detected early, you have 100% chances to recover and success in treatment would be higher.
Late symptoms of Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is a slow grow cancer.
The symptoms becomes more serious and numerous as the cancer advances.
The symptoms usually appear after the tumour is large enough and affecting the surrounding tissues and organs.
As the cancer progresses, late symptoms of prostate cancer start to appear.
Here are some of the late symptoms of prostate cancer experience during advanced stages,
* Difficulties associated with urination.
* Increase in frequency of urination during the night.
* The urgency to urinate becomes frequent as the result of losing control over your urinary bladder and bowels.
* Experiencing interruption and hesitancy during urination.
* Pain while urinating and accompanied with a burning sensation.
* Gnawing pain in the lower abdomen while urinating.
* Blood in the urine.
* Painful ejaculation.
* Blood in semen.
* Difficulty getting a penile erection.
* Experiencing inconvenience in the pelvic region.
* Persistent pain in your bones or joints, especially in your back, hips and thighs as well as your neck.
* Edema or swelling (water accumulation) in the legs.
* Drastic weight loss and fatigue.
* Anemia.
* Experiences weakness and numbness in the feet or legs.
Therefore, regular checkups and screenings will help you catch the prostate cancer at its early stage.
The sooner you report the prostate cancer symptoms to your doctor, the earlier the diagnosis can be done and treatment can start immediately.
Once this cancer spreads (metastasizes) outside of the prostate, cure is very difficult and unlikely.
Key statistics about prostate cancer
“Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men.
The latest American Cancer Society estimates for prostate cancer in the United States are for 2012:
* About 241,740 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed.
* About 28,170 men will die of prostate cancer.
About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.
Prostate cancer occurs mainly in older men.
Nearly two thirds are diagnosed in men aged 65 or older, and it is rare before age 40.
The average age at the time of diagnosis is about 67.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer.
About 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer can be a serious disease, but most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die from it.
In fact, more than 2.5 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today. Source
There is no known single cause of prostate cancer but some indicators pointing towards the cause.
Risks and factors in man developing prostate cancer,
* Increases significantly with age.
* Fewer men under the age of 50 being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
* Most prostate cancers are found in men around and above the age of 65.
* Genetic.
* Men of African descent are 60% more likely to develop prostate cancer.
While Asian men are least likely to develop prostate cancer, the reasons for this disparity are not known.
Posted by: Mo Salle
Article Reference:
• What Are The Key Statics About Prostate Cancer?
• Prostate Cancer: Early Detection (PDF)
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