key articles
EAU Prize-winning Abstract: A hybrid radioactive, fluorescent tracer for sentinel node biopsy in penile cancer
Monday, 26 March 2012- Sentinel node biopsy is a suitable procedure to stage clinically node-negative penile cancer, and is typically performed using lymphatic mapping with blue dye and a radiocolloid.
Fluorescence based...
Filed by: JV
Penile and testicular cancer, late effects of treatment
Monday, 27 February 2012- With the increasing prevalence of long-term survivors after urological cancer, multidisciplinary research on treatment-related late adverse effects (AEs) has become an important issue of the...
By Prof. Sophie Fosså
11th CEM: frequent, lasting follow-up on penile cancer is essential
Saturday, 29 October 2011- Compared to a decade ago, results and outcomes for the management of penile cancer have seen improvements in recent years due to better insights into the disease, the development of newer...
By Joel Vega
Activity of sorafenib and sunitinib in advanced penile cancer
Thursday, 4 November 2010- A group of researchers from China conducted a study to investigate the use of sorafenib and sunitinib in the treatment of chemotherapy-refractory advanced penile squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
Yao Zhu...
Edited by: JV
Identifying the needs of penile cancer patients
Tuesday, 11 August 2009- Penile cancer is an uncommon malignancy with an incidence of 1 per 100,000. Conservative and radical treatments can be disfiguring and may have an impact on sexual function, quality of life (QOL), social...
Edited by: JV
Study describes the mechanisms of HIV-1 infection of human penile explant tissue
Monday, 2 March 2009 – The study, conducted by an international team of scientists and published in the latest issue of AIDS discusses various factors governing events between exposure of male genital mucosa surfaces and the...
Edited by: ES
Role of pathologic prognostic factors in squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 - In a review, Cubilla (2008) identified prognostic pathologic factors which are independent from other clinical or molecular variables.
The author reviewed the literature on morphological prognostic...
Author: Cubilla
Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Thursday, 16 October 2008 - In this article Leijte et al retrospectively analyse the recurrence patterns of penile carcinoma. Their experience is based on the analysis of one of the largest published database (700 patients) of...
Source; European Urology Today, Volume 20 - Number 4
Contemporary inguinal lymph node dissection: minimizing complications
Monday, 6 October 2008 - In a review, Spiess et al. (2008) described the morbidity of inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) performed as part of the management of penile cancer as well as recent modifications that may reduce the...
Authors: Spiess et al.
Prognostic factors in invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Sunday, 21 September 2008 - Ornellas et al. (2008) evaluated the role of primary tumor histopathological features for predicting regional metastasis and the prognosis in patients with penile squamous cell carcinoma.
From April...
Authors: Ornellas et al.
