If people think only men with peeing problems get prostate cancer, then healthy-seeming men won’t get checked—and that’s dangerous because cancer can be silent.

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Urinary symptoms and prostate cancer—the misconception that may be preventing earlier presentation and better survival outcomes

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2022 Aug 4

The study says telling men to get tested only if they have trouble peeing is wrong—prostate cancer often has no symptoms at all, so men without symptoms are skipping tests and getting diagnosed too late. It says we should tell everyone to get checked, no matter how they feel.

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Urinary symptoms and prostate cancer—the misconception that may be preventing earlier presentation and better survival outcomes

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DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02453-7

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Most people think if you don’t have trouble peeing, you don’t have prostate cancer—but that’s wrong; most early cancers cause no symptoms at all.

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