Prostate cancer has these early symptoms! What methods can be used to treat it?

The clinical manifestations of prostate cancer vary greatly, which is related to the type of tumor. Latent and latent types have no local symptoms. The local symptoms of clinical types are similar to those of prostate hyperplasia.

Prostate Cancer Symptoms

1. In the early stages, the patient has no characteristics or symptoms. As the disease progresses, the patient may notice the following:

1. Frequent and urgent urination.

2. Urinary retention.

3. There is a spicy feeling when urinating.

4. Difficulty in forming urine flow.

5. Hematuria.

6. Painful urination.

7. Bone pain, etc.

Second, some people have no symptoms in the early stage. Symptoms only appear when the cancer causes obstruction of the bladder neck and urethra. Some patients seek medical treatment for metastatic symptoms, such as back pain, sciatica, etc. Therefore, prostate cancer should be excluded for male metastatic cancer with unknown primary lesions. When the bladder neck and urethra are invaded, there will be symptoms of urethral stenosis, frequent urination, urgency, pain, hematuria, dysuria, etc. Patients have chronic wasting symptoms, such as weight loss, weakness, anemia, etc.

What causes prostate cancer?

1. Age

Age is a contributing factor to prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is very rare in men under 45 years old, but the incidence of prostate cancer increases dramatically with age, and the vast majority of prostate cancer patients are over 65 years old. Basically, the incidence of prostate cancer almost doubles with every 10 years of age after the age of 40. The incidence of prostate cancer is higher in African Americans, followed by Hispanics and Caucasians in the United States, while the incidence of prostate cancer in African blacks is the lowest in the world. The incidence of prostate cancer in Asian men living in the United States is lower than that of Caucasians, but significantly higher than that of native Asian men.

2. Environment

The occurrence of diseases is also indirectly related to the quality of the environment. Cadmium pollution in the air can increase the risk of prostate cancer in men. Therefore, it is very important to stay away from pollution and live in a good environment. Long-term, chronic bacterial or viral infections will greatly increase the chance of prostate cancer.

3. Genetics

If there is a sick family member in the family, the possibility of this man getting sick is higher than other ordinary people. Among many patients, about 9% have a family history of the disease. When a direct male relative in the family suffers from prostate cancer, the incidence rate of men in the family is significantly increased. Direct male relatives generally refer to fathers and brothers. If one direct relative has prostate cancer, the probability of developing prostate cancer will be 1 times higher than the general population; if there are 2, it will be 3 times higher. This shows that the occurrence of prostate cancer may be related to one or a group of genes in the body, but these genes have not yet been fully identified by scientists.

4. Sexual life

The cause of prostate cancer is often closely related to the secretion of male hormones. The more frequent the sexual life, the more hormones men secrete, and the greater the chance of developing the disease.

How is prostate cancer treated?

1. Surgery for prostate cancer

Surgical treatment is a common method nowadays, and the treatment has a good therapeutic effect. Radical prostatectomy includes the prostate gland and the prostate capsule; pelvic lymph node dissection; transurethral prostatectomy, which is mainly used to relieve bladder neck obstruction.

Endocrine and adrenal drug therapy. Endocrine therapy is currently the main treatment for prostate cancer, especially advanced prostate cancer. Estrogen drugs. Anti-androgen drugs, including steroids and non-steroids. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs (GNRH-A), anti-adrenal drugs.

2. Cell therapy for prostate cancer

Pay attention to timely treatment and some healthy lifestyles and methods. The lymphocytes with killing effects in the prostate cancer body include natural killer cells, killer cell killer T cells, etc., which can fight against the generation of prostate cancer cells. According to experimental observations, a prostate cancer cell requires hundreds of lymphocytes to deal with it. And there are about 1 billion tumor cells in a tumor mass of one cubic centimeter. Therefore, if there are a large number of lymphocytes, prostate cancer cells can be effectively eliminated and the generation of prostate cancer cells can be fought. This is the basic concept of cell immunotherapy.

3. Cryotherapy for prostate cancer

Special attention should also be paid to the treatment of prostate cancer, and cryotherapy is the main method. It is a minimally invasive method for treating prostate cancer. Under ultrasound guidance, a probe is inserted into the prostate through the perineal skin, and then liquid nitrogen at minus 96 degrees Celsius is injected into the probe to freeze and kill tumor cells. Currently, cryotherapy is often used as a second-line treatment for prostate cancer patients who have failed external radiation therapy.