How to Identify Prostate Cancer

How to identify prostate cancer? Early prostate cancer has no special symptoms after onset. As a result of the disease entering the late stage, the patient went to the orthopedic department for examination because of bone pain, and finally transferred to the urology department, and it was found that he had prostate cancer. This shows that more and more people in life pay attention to how to detect this disease early. Although there are no unique symptoms in the early stage of this disease, we can find and diagnose prostate cancer through some screening work and clinical symptoms.

1. Symptom diagnosis: Prostate cancer is clinically divided into four stages. In clinical practice, 80% of patients have progressive urinary system symptoms caused by cancer, such as dysuria, bifurcated urine stream, prolonged urination, frequent urination, thinning or deviated urine stream, urgency, pain, and a feeling of incomplete urination. Severe patients may eventually experience dribbling urine and urinary retention. Hematuria is rare.

Pain is also the main symptom of this disease, including pain in the lower back, sacrum, buttocks, and hips. Pelvic and sciatica are common in clinical practice, and patients experience severe and unbearable pain.

Metastatic symptoms are common in prostate cancer. Many patients have lymph node metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis, causing lymph node enlargement and lower limb swelling. Patients with hematogenous metastasis are more likely to have bone and internal organs metastasis.

2. Examination and diagnosis:

1. When patients undergo cystoscopy, they can determine whether their cancer has invaded the urethra or bladder.

2. Patients with prostate fluid cancer can undergo cell examination, and the results may be positive.

3. When patients undergo serum acid phosphatase, bone marrow acid phosphatase and serum alkaline phosphatase tests, their levels may increase when bone metastasis occurs.

4. In cystography examination, patients with prostate cancer will show enlarged prostate, and the patient's urethral opening will be destroyed or the edges will be irregular.

5. Prostate angiography is also a common examination method, which can also show the patient's glandular destruction, glandular duct obstruction, irregular shape and enlargement, etc.

6. X-ray examination shows that the patient's bones undergo osteoblastic changes. At the same time, the patient's bone shadow density increases and the trabeculae disappear.

7. When patients undergo prostate biopsy, a positive result may be obtained.

The above are some methods for diagnosing prostate cancer introduced by experts. If patients with prostate cancer want to be diagnosed and treated for this disease, they must go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment. At the same time, they also need to pay attention to actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment and keep themselves from being defeated by the disease mentally so as to overcome the disease as soon as possible.