The health body notes, however, that swelling is most often concentrated around the area where cancer has spread.
Some of the more classic symptoms include passing urine more often during the day or night, and difficulty passing urine, but these vary depending on the stage of the disease.
Medscape explains: “Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men, making the diagnosis and staging of this cancer of great medical and public interest.
“Although prostate cancer can be slow-growing, the disease nonetheless accounts for more than 10 percent of cancer-related deaths in males, with tens of thousands of men dying of prostate cancer each year.”