The prostate cancer is the second most frequent form of cancer affecting men form all over the world and is one type of cancer affecting the prostate gland, found only in the male reproductive system; this organ is located near the rectum, below the bladder, it surrounds the urethra and is responsible with the making of the seminal fluid.



Without any early symptoms, the recently formed tumor can only be discovered with the help of the recommended screening tests and usually after the prostate biopsy procedure it is reveled whether cancerous cells do or do not exist within the prostate organ.

The most common prostate cancer symptoms are frequent urination or weak urine stream, burning or pain while urinating, blood in urine or semen, painful ejaculation, back pains, stiffness and ache.

If cancer is detected, the staging process will give an answer about how far advanced is the tumor and what treatments are necessary. It is know that the spreading process is done by invading the neighboring tissues, spreading through the lymph vessels and lymph nodes or by traveling through the bloodstream to far away tissues so the tumor is either organ-confined or locally advanced, and in the worst case metastatic, which is the advanced form of prostate cancer.

In the end stage of cancer known as stage IV, in the TNM staging system or stage D, in the Whitmore-Jewett system staging, the cancer is metastasized and has spread to the bones, lungs, liver and the cancerous cells are being transported through the bloodstream and the lymphatic system to other internal regions of the body where they grow other tumors.

In this advanced stage the cancer can cause chest pains and coughing if the lungs are affected but also give an appearance of yellow skin and unbearable pains in the abdomen if the malignant tumor has spread to the liver.

In the worst case scenario, the spinal cord will be affected by the prostate cancer which will cause a compression of the spine, resulting in muscle weakness or fecal and urinary incontinence.

The muscle weakness is a symptom used in describing dizziness, the lack of muscle strength, fatigue or malaise.

There are two types of weaknesses: perceived weakness which describes the condition where the person usually feels that he needs to put more strength in doing a certain activity even though the actual strength of the muscle is normal and for that activity you don’t have to overexert yourself, and the true weakness, when the force of the muscle is less than would probably be expected in such a condition.

The muscle cells are working through the detection of a flow of electrical impulses generated by the brain after giving them the signal to contract when calcium is released by the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Muscle weakness and fatigue describes the condition when this complex activity is not working well and one cause for it can be the prostate cancer.

Detecting the cancer in its early stages is one way to avoid this horrible suffering so always seek for the doctors counseling.