Prostate cancer symptoms and diagnosis

Prostate cancer symptoms

Examine the condition of the prostate from the anus, apparatus, ultrasonic

No symptoms in the early stages of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer can be as described in the preceding paragraph is outside of the prostate, not coming out such as hematuria.

As you increase the size “urinary symptoms” or “thermal urinary symptoms” appears.

In the one seen during urination and “urinary symptoms”

• There is no power
• Nuff
• Begins to take time ( until end ) to get out
• not chikarama and no

Refers to such symptoms.

“Thermal urinary symptoms” which is caused by hypersensitivity to bladder, times to go to the toilet at night unclear ending and urinate frequent at least 8 “urination”, in the daytime more than 1 times, also “feeling of residual urine”, but “urinate urgency held Bimbo not urinate suddenly” etc. should.

Because prostate cancer has spread to the bone, progress, pain, lumbar spine, femur, ribs come out. Further forward, lower body must be come paralyzed also. Spread to the lymph nodes, the edema leg lymph flow get worse.

Prostate cancer testing

Jing, PSA (prostate specific antigen) test a rectal prostate cancer tests, ultrasound examination, rectal checkups always do. And prostate biopsy of these irregularities, in the one case, organization and confirm whether or not the cancer.

Check the progress cancer found disease biopsy results of a CT, MRI, bone scan, the treatment. The cost is 3,000-5,000 yen.

System PSA test
Examine the PSA blood test to determine the presence of cancer, tumor marker. Is usually the same blood, no physical burden.

System of a Rectal Ultrasound
From anal insert apparatus, ultrasonic, and examines the State of the prostate by the ultrasonic echo. No pain associated with the inspection. Cost is 2,500 to 4,000 yen.

System rectal examination
To insert a finger rectal from touching the prostate, check the size and hardness. And when touching the fooled cancer if the hardness of the bones properly and the groin swelling under the thumb of her firmness if said.

System for prostate biopsy
To do a final diagnosis of prostate cancer is suspected in the inspection over the Organization and then microscopic examination. Recently put apparatus “ultrasound probes from the anus, taken the prostate tissue with a needle from several places. Sankei said already do so in ways similar to the ultrasound examination of the rectum pain, anesthesia or not basically.

To insert the needle though, equipment in the tunnel and out of mechanism and slide the barrel and be taken instantly, so one place per second or more simply. Inspection time is about 1 hour-30 minutes. Until the result comes to take about one week. Cost is 10,000-30,000 yen.

Diagnosis of prostate cancer

Is said that PSA testing is the most useful of all the cancer tumor markers and can be found prostate cancer in 80-90% chance.

Sugars are made only in the epithelial cells of the prostate protein PSA, PSA value (ng/ml) is expressed in the blood. High PSA less than 4.0 or suspicion of cancer “grey area”, 10.1 over the low cancer suspected “negative”, n/a and “positive”.

After biopsy finds cancer rates, is about 50% in 10.1 above 20-30% in n/a And more than 20.0 up to 80-90%. Becomes more than 20.0, will be high may have spread lymph nodes are.

Malignancy of prostate cancer diagnosis

If prostate cancer is accepted by a biopsy, represents the malignancy indices called the Gleason score. Many prostate cancer are multiple contains different malignant lesions, pleased many lesions most lesions and then the score of. 5-Stage malignancy will (malignant higher numbers) classification.

For example, lesions most often at “4″ and the many lesions in 3′s score is “7″. Evaluations in the Gleason score is below the “6″ low malignancy and high malignancy “moderate,”8″-10″ is “7″.