Health Tip: Symptoms of Prostate Cancer

(HealthDay News) -- As with other forms of cancer, early diagnosis and treatment is key to beating the disease. The Prostate Cancer Foundation lists these symptoms as possible warning signs for prostate cancer:

• Frequently feeling a need to urinate, particularly at night.
• Pain or burning during urination.
• Problems starting or stopping urinating, or weak urination.
• Sexual dysfunction or pain.
• Bloody urine or semen.
• Pain or stiffness in the lower back, hips or thighs.

-- Diana Kohnle

Last Updated: Nov. 9, 2006

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