Early prostate cancer warning signs men should look out for - Liverpool Echo

Thousands of British men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, with one man dying every 45 minutes from the disease.

Actor William Hurt died earlier this year, four years after being given a terminal prostate cancer diagnosis, Wales Online reports.

Dr Kubes is Medical Director at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic – a facility that treats many UK prostate cancer patients with pioneering proton beam therapy radiation.

Dr Kubes said: “While there’s no national screening programme for prostate cancer, a prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test is used as a diagnostic tool in the UK.

However – and this is crucial – if there’s any family history of prostate cancer, you can demand a PSA test five to ten years sooner, at the age of 40-45.

But men also need to be aware that prostate cancer can be symptomless until the tumour has grown large enough to pose a real problem.

“We see many patients - in fact the majority - who’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer having had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.”.

Most patients will undergo a biopsy of the tumour, with samples of tissue studied in a lab to see how quickly the cancer will spread.

Another common treatment is radiotherapy, or a mixture of radiotherapy and hormone therapy, to halt the spread of the cancer and to stop cells regrowing

“For prostate cancer patients it can also radically reduce the chances of incontinence and impotence