Symptoms of Prostate Cancer

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Prostate cancer, like most malignant tumours, may not be symptomatic in the early stages of the disease. The tumours tend to progress slowly and symptoms occur in the more advanced stages of the disease.

Los síntomas más frecuentes son los relacionados con la micción que pueden manifestarse de diferentes formas:

Person who urinates frequently

Increased urinary frequency.

Person with urgency to urinate during the night

Urgent need to urinate and the need to urinate several times during the night.

Person with decreased voiding calibre

Decreased urinary calibre.

Person with the need to urinate

Urinary flow interrupted and the need to strain to empty the bladder.

Person with itchy urination

Burning when urinating.

Person with painful urination

Pain when urinating.

Person with urinary catheter

Acute urinary retention, which makes urination impossible and catheterisation is required.

Urine sample cup with bar code

Haematuria, the urine contains blood.

Impotence or erectile dysfunction

Impotence.

Presence of blood in semen

Blood in their semen.

In advanced stages of the disease and when it is no longer located in the prostate, the patient may have:

Person with pain in the lower abdomen

Soreness or pain in the lower abdomen.

Person with sitting discomfort due to inflamed prostate gland

Discomfort when sitting.

When the disease goes beyond the prostate there may be:

Oedema or swelling in the lower extremities

Oedema in the lower extremities.

Changes in stool rhythm and asymmetric bowel movements

Alterations in the rhythm of bowel movements.

Person with sitting discomfort due to inflamed prostate gland

Discomfort when sitting due to an inflamed prostate.

Bone affected by osteoporosis

Bone pain.

Swollen leg

Swollen legs.

Scale with a down arrow indicating a weight loss

Weight loss.

Tired, sweating man

Tiredness.

Changes in stool rhythm and asymmetric bowel movements

Changes in bowel habits.

If the bones are affected, there may be:

Person holding a hand to his head with a symbol of a lightning bolt above it indicating a headache

Bone pain or generalised pain.

Bone affected by osteoporosis

Fracturing of the affected bones.

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Substantiated information by:

Antoni Vilaseca
Ascensión Gómez Porcel
Izaskun Valduvieco
Meritxell Costa
Oscar Reig Torras
Pilar Paredes Barranco
Rafael Salvador

Published: 6 May 2019
Updated: 6 May 2019

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