What are the dangers of prostate cancer?

When it comes to cancer, basically everyone will feel very scary, and they all know that cancer is not easy to treat. However, there are many types of cancer diseases, and prostate cancer is one of them, so let's take a look at the harm of prostate cancer disease, hoping to attract everyone's attention.

What is prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in men in Europe and the United States. The incidence rate increases with age, half of the prostate examined over 80 years old have cancer lesions, but the actual clinical incidence is far lower than this, the incidence of prostate cancer has obvious regional and ethnic differences, according to statistics, Chinese are the lowest, Europeans are the highest, Africa and Israel are in between, China and Japan and other countries are low prostate cancer areas, but there is no choice for men over 50 years old autopsy prostate segment slices found that the number of latent cancer lesions is similar to Europe and the United States, so some people think that Oriental cancer growth is slower than Westerners, and there are fewer clinical cases. Prostate cancer is also related to the environment.

The dangers of prostate cancer

1. Systemic damage: Because cancer pain will affect the patient's diet, sleep and spirit, in the long run, the patient's general condition will become weaker and weaker, showing emaciation and fatigue, and then a series of damage symptoms such as anemia, cachexia or renal failure...

2. Metastasis symptoms: Many advanced tumors will metastasize, and prostate cancer is no exception. About 1/3 or even 2/3 of prostate cancer patients have lymph node metastasis at the time of initial medical treatment, mostly occurring in the intrailiac, extrailiary, waist, groin and other parts. It can cause lymphadenopathy and swelling of the lower limbs. Hematogenous metastases are more common in bones (such as pelvis, sacrum, lumbar vertebrae, upper femur, etc.) and internal organs (such as lungs, liver, brain, adrenal glands, testes, etc.).When prostate cancer metastasizes, paraplegia may occur.

3. Urination disorder: Urination disorder is one of the common symptoms of prostate cancer, and about 80% of patients will have progressive dysuria, thin or crooked urine flow due to cancer lesions, or bifurcation, prolonged urinary process, frequent urination, urgency, painful urination, incomplete feeling of urine, etc., and in severe cases, urine dripping and urinary retention will occur. Hematuria accounts for only 3% of patients.

4. Infertility: Prostate cancer may lead to male infertility if not treated early.

5. Pain: About 31% of prostate cancer patients will have pain. The common pain sites are mainly in the waist, sacrum, buttocks, and hips, and pelvic and sciatica are the main symptoms of common prostate cancer, which is severe and unbearable.May be due to metastasis to the bone or nerve invasion or hydronephrosis or kidney infection.

The earlier the treatment of prostate cancer, the better the effect, therefore, once a male friend is suspected of having prostate cancer, he should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to avoid endangering his life. Male friends should take precautions in normal times.