How do lymph nodes play a role in testing for prostate cancer?

How do lymph nodes play a role in testing for prostate cancer?

Mark Vogel (Board Certified Urologist) gives expert video advice on: Who should get a prostate cancer screening?; Why is early prostate cancer detection important?; What are the symptoms of prostate cancer? and more...

Prostate cancer, like other malignancies, tend to spread often first to adjacent lymph nodes. Therefore, detecting cancer in the lymph nodes may demonstrate whether there is in fact spread of the cancer.