Question: What are the Symptoms of Prostate Cancer?
Answer: Prostate Cancer is known as a silent killer because often, prostate cancer has no symptoms, especially in early stages.
Some prostate cancer victims never experience any symptoms or problems from the disease. It can be slow growing and if the man is up in age, it may not be the thing that kills. However, some prostate cancer is a faster, more aggressive form that kills relatively quickly.
The first symptoms that a man may experience is when the cancer grows significantly in the prostate gland putting pressure on the urethra causing stricture.
When this happens, symptoms include:
- a decreased, weak stream of urine;
- feeling like your bladder never empties;
- dribbling, before and/or after urinating;
- rarely, pain during orgasm, or blood in the urine.
These symptoms are all similar to other, more common prostate problems including prostatitis, and BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy).
More advanced prostate cancer can spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body--especially bones. The most common bones where prostate cancer spread are in the lower back, hips, or pelvis. This often causes the affected bones to become tender and painful.
Prostate cancer risk increases significantly with age, making it necessary to be screened as recommended.
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