where does prostate cancer usually spread to
When prostate cancer spreads beyond the prostate to another organ, most frequently it spreads to the bone. Prostate cancer that spread to the bone is still prostate cancer when doctors look at it under the microscope. It is still treated with therapy for prostate cancer. A man whose prostate cancer spread to the bone does not have bone cancer.
Prostate cancer can spread beyond the prostate in three ways: 1  By growing into neighboring tissues (invasion) 2  By spreading through the lymph system of lymph nodes and lymph vessels. 3  By traveling to distant tissues through the blood (metastasis)