Cambridge University researchers said there was 'no evidence of a causal link between prostate cancer and either prostate size or troublesome male urinary symptoms'.
Public health messaging around prostate cancer places a misleading focus on urinary symptoms and may be hampering efforts of early detection, scientists have warned.
However, public health guidance regularly promotes this link, with an increased need to urinate high on the list of symptoms for prostate cancer given on the NHS website.
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