Saturday, March 6, 2010

Prostate Cancer - The Early Signs Of The Illness

By Lerma Masip

A prostate cancer sign does not necessarily show up in an early stage of cancer. Once you have the PSA test or the rectal examination this can be found. The symptoms of cancer may show up if the cancer tumor has made the prostate larger and it made to start to press in the urethra. This is the reason why you feel some pain and difficulty in passing of urine.

As the age men of increases, the prostate enlarged and this cause difficulties with the urethra and the bladder. If ever you think that the symptoms of prostate cancer is experience by you, the least thing that you should do is for you to visit your doctor.

Included in the signs and symptoms of prostate cancer are urge to urinate particularly at night, the need to pass the urine often, having a hard time to start and stop the flow of urine, not able to urinate, frail and intermittent stream of urine, ache while urinating, blood in the urine and hurting ejaculation.

If you feel that you are in great risk, better meet your physician and ask if you need some diagnosis or test to determine if it is really a prostate cancer. Having a PSA and a DRE tests is can be a great help to detect prostate cancer at an early stage. But sometimes these tests can also cause false alarms and may detect cancers that are not actually imposing any threat to you.

Most of the cases of this type of illness is cannot be distinguish until it extended beyond the glands for the reason that there are no signs and symptoms that you can determine on the early phase. As an end result, it is necessary for you to go through a prostate specific antigen examination. Once the cancer has been determined the cancer already widen. There are cancers that grows gradually, therefore it is very essential to talk about it with your doctor.

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