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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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 most people think prostate cancer causes urinary problems, but that’s wrong — it often has no symptoms at all in the early, treatable stage. So the claim that people are wrongly focused on symptoms is correct.

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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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