Early-stage prostate cancer continues to go undetected because national guidelines and media health campaigns focus on the wrong symptoms, claim experts at the University of Cambridge. National guidelines, health advice and public health campaigns continue to promote a link between urinary symptoms and prostate cancer – despite what the researchers claim is a lack of scientific evidence.
They say the connection could deter men from coming forward for early testing and detection of a potentially treatable cancer. If men do not experience urinary symptoms, they may be less likely to associate their other medical complaints with the possibility of a prostate cancer diagnosis, the researchers claim.
