What does prostate cancer look like in the final stage?
While prostate cancer often causes no symptoms in the early stage, the final stage can be characterized by a pronounced symptomatology. This is caused by the size of the tumor and metastases in other organs. The tumor often causes problems urinating because it presses on the urethra.
As a result, there is a weakened or interrupted urinary stream, reduced urine volume, more difficult urination and an increased urge to urinate, especially at night. Urination can also cause pain. Erectile dysfunction may be another indication of an advanced tumor.
These include erectile dysfunction, pain during erection and reduced ejaculation. Ultimately, the pain symptoms are most pronounced in the final stage. Especially metastases that have scattered into the bones cause severe back pain, movement disorders, etc.
Regardless of the cancer, the body is weakened in the final stage. The patient suffers from weight loss, fever and night sweats. The most important task of the physicians is to make the time remaining to the patient as comfortable as possible. The most important thing is the right pain therapy.In addition to medication, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, acupuncture or nerve stimulation procedures can also help.
What are the causes of prostate cancer?
The exact origin is still unknown. However, prostate cancer seems to require stimulation by male sex hormones (androgens). This can be seen from the fact that suppression of these hormones leads to shrinkage of the prostate and in about 80% of cases also to a reduction in the size of the tumor. Furthermore, genetic causes and environmental influences such as diet, exercise etc. are suspected to contribute to the development of prostate cancer.
Is prostate cancer hereditary?
Prostate cancer is not a hereditary disease in the classical sense, but recent findings show that men who have developed prostate cancer in close relatives have an increased risk of developing the disease themselves. If the father is affected by prostate cancer, the risk increases to twice as much. A brother with prostate cancer is up to three times as likely to develop prostate cancer as a hereditarily unaffected man.
The more… the higher the risk for male relatives to also get prostate cancer. Men, in whose close relatives prostate carcinomas occur, should therefore already take advantage of the early detection examination from the age of 40.
- More family members are ill,
- Disciples they were at the time of diagnosis and
- Tumor growth was more aggressive,
