Can prostate cancer wait?

  The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the tumor. The first thing that comes to mind when prostate cancer is discovered is to cure the tumor and save your life; however, the patient will certainly have to endure the many side effects of the treatment, and if other diseases are combined, the pain and the side effects of the treatment will add to the patient’s suffering and may reduce the patient’s life expectancy.  In terms of prostate cancer itself, since 70% of it occurs in the peripheral zone of the gland with few symptoms, it is considered a very silent tumor and is usually detected by physical examination screening. The tumor usually does not affect urination; only when it develops to an advanced stage and the tumor is relatively large will it compress the urethra and cause difficulty in urination; as long as the tumor is not so severe as to invade the sexual nerve, prostate cancer will not affect sexual function; at the same time, although prostate cancer is an androgen-dependent tumor, sexual life itself will not accelerate the development of the tumor.  However, if you want to treat early stage prostate cancer, whether it is surgery or radiotherapy, the most common side effects are sexual dysfunction as well as urinary incontinence. As society develops and people become more and more concerned about the quality of life, more and more older people are taking this into account when choosing whether or not to have treatment.  In fact, prostate cancer is generally slow to develop and many tend to have a benign course, but there are some types that are highly malignant and develop rapidly, so it is important to monitor changes in PSA and to monitor the disease in conjunction with specialized physical examinations and imaging tests to keep an eye on how the disease is developing and how it is responding to treatment. If patients are actively followed up and closely monitored, prostate cancer can sometimes wait a bit.  Background: In recent years, China has paid more and more attention to the early screening of prostate cancer, requiring men over 50 years old to have PSA test in their annual physical examination, so it is not difficult to detect early to mid-stage prostate cancer: if the PSA test is 4-10ng/ml, it may be prostate hyperplasia or prostate cancer, and the decision of whether to have a puncture biopsy is made through rectal examination, free PSA ratio, MRI, etc. ;If the test value is greater than 10ng/ml, you should generally consider doing a transrectal or transperineal puncture and other tests.