Sunday, February 17, 2008

How early detection of prostate cancer

Because prostate cancer will occur in the posterior lobe, early and asymptomatic, even if there are not, is not enough to cause the patient's attention, it brought to the early diagnosis difficult. Once a clinically significant symptoms, the disease often is already late, poor prognosis. Clearly, early detection of prostate cancer is very important. Especially for prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia patients, recurrent, great attention to the condition changes to prevent cancer. Prostate cancer patients in the early regular increase in frequency and nocturia, dysuria, urinary thinning, urine-extended, voiding symptoms such as pain, and urinary retention, with the same benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer diagnosis difficult Accordingly, the main relying on digital rectal examination diagnosis.    Digital rectal examination in the early diagnosis of prostate cancer in the extremely important, its accuracy rate of 50% -70%. Many scholars maintained that the high incidence of prostate cancer, the middle-aged and older men regular digital rectal examination, many patients will get early diagnosis and cure opportunities.    If necessary, doctors can take the perineum, rectum puncture, from biopsy examination, the correct diagnosis rate of 70% -80%. Massage also transrectal prostate, prostate charge of inspection, the positive rate of over 90 percent. The vast majority of cases can thus be diagnosed.    Worth reminded that, despite the prostate cancer incidence rate is not high, but it resembles the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia, if after treatment, his condition deteriorated more, we must think of the possibility of prostate cancer, the check should be made for early detection to early diagnosis.

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