6. Urinary intermittency
In normal cases, the urinary stream should start without pushing and continue uninterrupted to the end. In patients with prostate cancer, the urinary stream becomes interrupted several times, and not because the patient is cutting the stream halfways. The stream stops and resumes, and every time it stops, some patients may find it hard to restart the stream. In most cases, prostate cancer grows in the posterior portion of the prostate, so these symptoms of prostate cancer are likely caused by advanced disease. It is also a symptom of benign prostatic hyperplasia, and this diagnosis should always be ruled out.