Clinical features
Prostate cancer often has no symptoms in the early stages. It is frequently found by accident in men who have an enlarged prostate because they have benign prostatic hyperplasia’. The symptoms of an enlarged prostate are related to narrowing of the urethra and are:
- Difficulty passing urine.
- Sometimes complete inability to pass urine at all – ‘urinary retention’.
The first symptoms of prostate cancer are quite commonly bone pain from secondary spread of the cancer to bones. Prostate cancer often metastasises to bones and classically the pain is in the lower back.
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