Dr. Esteban Kosak 
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in male patients in the United States. Sadly, it is the second most common cause of death in this same country due to cancer among men.
The prostate is a gland that has a close relationship with the male’s urinary tract system. Its relationship relies upon surrounding the urethra, a tube that comes out from the bladder and ends in the tip of the penis, carrying the urine the body produces. However, this gland’s real function is to produce a liquid that, embedded with sperm cells, will constitute the semen.
Moreover, cancer stands for the uncontrolled growth of cells in any possible body location. Regarding prostate cancer, several types exist. Of course, all of them are the growth of prostate cells, although not always the same cell. For example, approximately nine of every ten prostate cancer cases are due to one specific type, acinar adenocarcinoma. Also, this latter type has subtypes, which would have different outcomes. Two types, neuroendocrine carcinoma and ductal carcinoma account for many of the remaining cases.
Sadly, most of the time, this cancer produces no symptoms. Therefore, the only way to know if someone has this disease is through screening, imaging, and highly laborious exams. Although prostate cancer, indeed, can produce symptoms. They would vary and present locally like problems while urinating. Or, they could also manifest in the body as a whole because cancer spread to distant tissues.
The possible outcomes for people with this disease vary depending on several factors. Yet, the most important one is to detect the disease in its early development. Many treatment options exist for this cancer, including surgery, radiation, and other novel techniques. Sadly, for men with the advanced or spread disease, the possible good outcomes narrow. So, it is important an early diagnosis of men with this deadly cancer.
This is a Prostate Cancer Symptoms Checker. It gathers the most important signs, symptoms, and risk factors for this cancer.
Most of the models recommend an active screening for men above fifty years old. Still, it highly depends on the specific background of each patient. So, it is not possible to generalize.
The two most common ways to do screening is through a blood exam (PSA) and a digital rectal exam (DRE). This needs to be this way because, most of the time, prostate cancer causes no symptoms.
This tool comes to collaborate in those prevention efforts so active worldwide. It gathers the most important risk factors, symptoms, and signs for prostate cancer. Therefore, the tool can result positive in people experiencing symptoms that coincide with prostate cancer or someone who has strong risk factors for developing it or needing screening.
Keep in mind that this tool does not replace a formal screening or an assessment by a urologist. However, it will give its user an estimation if they have symptoms of the disease or urgently require screening.
Using this tool is free and would only take a few minutes. Keep yourself safe from prostate cancer.
- Question of
Do you have less than fifty years?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have sixty-five or more years?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are an African American?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have a first-degree relative (parents, sons, and siblings) diagnosed with breast cancer?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have a first-degree relative (parents, sons, and siblings) diagnosed with prostate cancer?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have smoked more than 100 cigarettes in your life, and you currently smoke them every day?
- Yes
- No
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Do you feel the need to be frequently urinating? (Click yes if it is more than usual, especially during the night, and it does not have to do with any new medication concerning, for example, a high-blood-pressure treatment)
- Yes
- No
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Do you feel that your urine stream is weaker than it used to be?
- Yes
- No
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Do you find it difficult to start urinating?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have the bothering sensation of having a not totally empty bladder after urinating?
- Yes
- No
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Do you feel that it takes you much more time to urinate than what it used to take?
- Yes
- No
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When ejaculating, do you have reddish or bloody semen secretion?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have reddish or bloody urine?
- Yes
- No
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Do you feel pain while ejaculating?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have back pain?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are having trouble in your ability to procure and keep an erection firm enough for sex?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been losing weight unintentionally? (Click yes if you also have lost your appetite, even without losing weight)
- Yes
- No
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Do you have a fever? (preferably use a thermometer which needs to shows more than 101,3 °F or touch your forehead and determine if the temperature is increased)
- Yes
- No
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Do you have more than fifty-five years and you have not done a prostatic specific antigen test?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have more than fifty-five years and you have not done a digital rectal exam?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are an African American man between forty and fifty-four years old, and you have a family member that was diagnosed with prostate, ovarian, breast, or pancreatic cancer, and you have never consulted a urologist?
- Yes
- No
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Do you are sixty-five years old or more and have never consulted a urologist?
- Yes
- No
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