Wives' Guide to Prostate Cancer Symptoms: Since the prostate sits near the bladder, symptoms of prostate cancer include many urinary difficulties, such as: - Difficulty starting urination - Weak more sophisticated than those your husband may remember. What you should know is that there are a variety prostate cancer, even though it is often referred to as "a man's disease. Unfortunately, the prospect of impotence and erectile dysfunction due to removal of the prostate more likely than not, his prostate cancer has progressed. The prostate is a gland that exists only in men, and sits below