The symptoms you are most likely to notice are:

• you are passing urine more often
• it is more difficult to pass urine
• passing urine is painful.

These symptoms occur because the cancer has made the prostate gland bigger, so that it presses on the urethra.

Most men with an enlarged prostate don’t have prostate cancer. They have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which causes the same symptoms. However, if you have trouble passing urine you should see your GP.

Some people with prostate cancer do not have any symptoms.