New Delhi: Prostate cancer often sneaks up quietly. Early on, it can feel like nothing more than an annoying need to pee at night or a little urinary slowdown, easy to shrug off as “just getting older.” In India, that shrug often turns into months or years without a proper check, and by the time some men see a specialist, the disease has already moved beyond the prostate. Recent reporting from Indian centres notes that in some regions as many as 60–70% of prostate cancers are detected at advanced stages, a statistic that helps explain worse outcomes compared with countries that catch the disease earlier.

Why men delay: culture, cost, and confusion

There are three big, human reasons behind late diagnosis. To begin with, awareness is low: lots of men and families do not know about early w

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