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Prostate cancer grows on the outside of the prostate, while urinary problems come from swelling in the middle—so one doesn’t cause the other.
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The study says prostate cancer usually starts in a different part of the prostate than where swelling causes urinary problems, which matches the claim—but it argues that people shouldn’t use urinary symptoms to guess if they have cancer, because they often don’t go together, and waiting for symptoms leads to late diagnosis.
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