It is most unfortunate the fact that prostate cancer has no early signs or symptoms to make it detectable at an early stage. Doctors should focus more on prevention and less of the actual diagnose. Of course, it if very important that men over forty do the screening tests but they should also give up on bad habits like smoking and excessive drinking and follow a strict nutritional diet. A doctor’s or an herbalist’s advice should be taken in consideration.

I’ve stated that there are no early symptoms but once the tumor starts spreading in the surrounding areas of the prostate, patients will experience painful and irritating sensations like: weak or frequent urine stream, pain while urinating, back pains, stiffness, burning while urinating, blood in urine or semen, ache or abdomen and bone pain, compression of the spine, leg weakness or incontinence and painful ejaculation.

The prostate cancer is an abnormal condition when the normal body cells tend to grow faster and without control while the cancerous cells appear and without treatment they start to multiply. The spreading of the cancer is a slow one, sometimes it can even take four years for the cancer to reach out of the capsule which contains the prostate, but once it succeeds, this spreading process will become a painful one. The staging system will determine whether the tumor is locally advanced or if the cancer is already metastasized; the spreading process is what interests us the most because it can be done by invading the surrounding areas and organs, traveling through the bloodstream or the lymph vessels. The metastatic cancer will definitely affect the spinal cord, the liver, the pelvis, the lungs, the ribs or the vertebrae. The symptoms associated with this advanced invasion are, in no particular order: frequent coughing, loss of appetite, chest and abdomen pains, muscle weakness because of the compression of the spine, weight loss, incontinence and a yellow skin.

Metastatic cancer will cause leg pains because prostate cancer has the predilection of affecting the bone structures. In normal conditions, a trauma can be seen as the main cause for the leg pain and because this is not the only common cause, a leg pain is usually ignored when it has to be associated with the existence of a prostate cancer. Strangely enough, the screening tests indicate that almost forty percent of men affected by this terrible disease report leg or back pains. The leg pain can be an early symptom or a terminal symptom, but a correct diagnose can only be put after the routine screening tests or after the prostate biopsy is done. The prescribed treatments will have to alleviate the pain you feel, but in the worst case scenario, there are side-effects which will only increase this unpleasant condition. There is no reason to frighten yourself if you feel leg pains because that doesn’t automatically mean you have cancer. Certain conditions that affect the joints, the bones, the muscles, the tendons, the nerves and blood vessels, the ligaments and even the skin can cause leg pains. Refrain from making hasty presumptions and contact your doctor immediately if you do feel the leg pain but you can not explain yourself what may cause it.