November is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and the movement Movember It is a benchmark in the prevention of this disease, as well as testicular cancer and mental health and suicide prevention. And in the context of this month of awareness, the specialists in Urology of the Ribera health group advise to recommend urological check-ups from the age of 50, in general, and from the age of 40 in the case of men with a family history of cancer of prostate. This is confirmed by doctors Francisco Javier Calahorra Fernández and Julio Fernández del Álamo, heads of the Urology services of the university hospitals of the Vinalopo y Torrejon. “Most patients with prostate cancer do not have any associated symptoms, especially in the initial stages,” explains Dr. Fernández del Álamo. Hence the importance of check-ups for early detection.
The Spanish Society of Oncology ensures that prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequent tumor in men and constitutes the second cause of cancer mortality in this group (behind lung and colorectal cancer). In addition, it warns that its incidence increases with age: 90% of cases are diagnosed in people over 65 years of age and the average age of diagnosis is 75 years.
symptoms of prostate cancer
Doctor Calahorra explains, for his part, that “the symptoms of prostate cancer do not differ, in the initial stages, with those of those men who present benign prostatic hyperplasia or no symptoms at all”. For example, adds Dr. Fernández del Álamo, with the worsening of voiding quality “which can occur with advancing age, and which in most cases is related to a benign growth of the prostate.” The person in charge of the Urology Service of the Hospital de Torrejón assures that “since it is a disease that does not give any symptoms in its early stages, the main tool we have for its diagnosis is the PSA, a determination that can be requested in the blood test blood, and physical examination by digital rectal examination.
In any case, professionals recommend going to the Primary Care doctor or specialist, in the case of having health insurance and having the possibility of requesting a direct appointment, in the case of detecting the following symptoms:
- Difficulty starting to urinate
- Weak urine stream and sometimes pain or burning
- Needing to urinate frequently, especially at night
- Problems emptying the bladder completely
- Blood in urine or semen
Hospitals such as Ribera Juan Cardona and Ribera Povisa have a check-up unit, among which you can request a urological check-up or Androcheck.
Both at the Torrejón University Hospital and at the Vinalopó Hospital, there is hardly any delay in treating this pathology and the results of the biopsy are delivered a few days after performing it.
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