Early symptoms of prostate cancer

The early symptoms of prostate cancer mainly include pain, urination disorder, systemic symptoms, lymph node metastasis and sexual dysfunction.

1. Pain: Prostate cancer patients may experience pain in the early stages, especially in the lower back, sacrum, buttocks and hips, which will worsen as the disease progresses, seriously affecting the patient's quality of life.

2. Urinary disorder: Prostate cancer patients will have urinary disorder, which is mainly manifested as frequent urination, urgency, pain, a feeling of incomplete urination, thinning urine stream, deviated urine stream, bifurcated urine stream, etc. In severe cases, urine dripping or urine retention may occur.

3. Systemic symptoms: such as decreased appetite, mental fatigue, drowsiness, fatigue, etc., and even systemic fever due to invasion of the immune system, accompanied by gradual weight loss.

4. Lymph node metastasis: Lymph node metastasis may occur in the early stages of prostate cancer, with obvious swelling and pain in the lymph nodes.

5. Sexual dysfunction: Prostate cancer patients may experience symptoms such as difficulty in erection, erection pain, and abnormal ejaculation.

The above symptoms are not specific manifestations of prostate cancer. However, after the above symptoms appear, you still need to pay attention to them, actively cooperate with the doctor for examination and treatment, and do not delay the disease.