Prostate cancer can be asymptomatic - this occurs mainly at the beginning - or characterized by various manifestations such as: need to urinate often, difficulty in starting or ending urination, blood in urine or sperm, intermittent urination, sense of pain or burning during urination or ejaculation and, finally, pain in the back, legs or hips.
These same disorders (or part of them) can also occur due to other prostate diseases, such as benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostatitis .
Benign prostatic hypertrophy is a volumetric enlargement of the prostate resulting from a benign cell proliferation process. Following this enlargement, the prostate tends to compress the surrounding anatomical structures - in particular the bladder and urethra - compromising urination.
Prostatitis is inflammation of the prostate, caused by infectious agents (usually bacteria). Like prostate cancer and benign prostatic hypertrophy, it causes problems during urination and other symptoms similar to those mentioned above.
