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The symptoms you are most likely to notice are...
- you are passing urine more often
- it is more difficult to pass urine
- passing urine is painful.
These symptoms occur because the cancer has made the prostate gland bigger, so that it presses on the urethra.
Most men with an enlarged prostate don’t have prostate cancer. They have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which causes the same symptoms. However, if you have trouble passing urine you should see your GP.
If prostate cancer spreads to the bones it can cause pain there. Back pain is quite a common sign of advanced prostate cancer, but remember that back pain is a common problem and it can have many other causes.
Some men, however, do not show any symptoms of prostate cancer - their prostate cancer is discovered during routine tests for other conditions.
