How prostate cancer is clinically diagnosed

The clinical diagnosis of prostate cancer needs to be considered from the following aspects:

1. Patient's symptoms, there are no specific symptoms in early prostate cancer, and it is usually accompanied by symptoms of prostatic hyperplasia, mainly frequent urination, urgency, difficulty urinating, etc.;

2. Physical examination, mainly refers to the digital examination of the prostate through the anus, through which it is found whether the texture has become hard, whether there is obvious nodular hyperplasia and other manifestations;

3. Prostate tumor index examination, the most commonly used in clinical practice is prostate-specific antigen, that is, PSA, its normal range is 0-4ng/mL, if it exceeds normal, you need to be alert to the possibility of tumor;

4. Imaging examinations, including B-ultrasound and magnetic resonance examinations, find whether there are prostate nodules or masses, especially peripheral lumps, and the possibility of neoplastic will increase.

If the above four aspects are combined, prostate biopsy may be required for prostate tumors, and at present, to diagnose prostate cancer clinically, in addition to surgery, prostate biopsy is the only gold standard, and only by obtaining prostate tissue through puncture and finding cancer cells through histopathological diagnosis can be diagnosed.