key articles
Robotics in urology: past, present, and future
Sunday, 1 June 2008 - Now urologist is continually armed with new instruments and technology to reduce invasive urologic procedures. Robotic technology is thought to improve clinical outcomes by correcting human technical...
Authors: Thiel & Winfield
Phase II multi-centre study of irinotecan combining cisplatin for penile cancer
Saturday, 31 May 2008 - Irinotecan is a chemotherapy agent (a topoisomerase 1 inhibitor, a semisynthetic analogue of the natural alkaloid camptothecin, mainly used in colon cancer) and well tolerated in combination with cisplatin...
Authors: Theodore et al.
Minimally invasive surgery in oncologic urology
Thursday, 1 May 2008 - In a review Bastide et al. (2008) highlighted the most important advances and results in minimally invasive oncologic surgery reported in the literature between September 2006 and September 2007.
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Authors: Bastide et al.
Demographic and pathologic differences in the incidence of invasive penile cancer in the United States, 1995-2003
Saturday, 23 February 2008 - Penile cancer is an uncommon malignancy, so few descriptive or analytic studies have been reported in the literature. In an analysis, Goodman et al. (2007) described the distribution...
Authors: Goodman et al.
Squamous cell carcinoma antigen correlates with tumor burden but lacks prognostic potential for occult lymph node metastases
Saturday, 5 January 2008 - In penile cancer, radical groin dissection is the reference standard for lymph node staging, but it is associated with high morbidity. Prognostic markers for lymphatic spread would be helpful to select...
Authors: Hungerhuber et al.
Long-term continuous sildenafil treatment ameliorates corporal veno-occlusive dysfunction (CVOD) induced by cavernosal nerve resection in rats
Wednesday, 28 November 2007 - It was recently reported that vardenafil given in a continuous long-term manner in the rat was successful in preventing smooth muscle fibrosis in the penile corpora cavernosa and corporal...
Authors: Kovanecz et al.
A 10-year retrospective audit of penile cancer management in the UK
Thursday, 15 November 2007 - Mistry et al. (2007) audited the penile cancer workload, management and outcome within a regional cancer network serving a population of approximately 1 million in the West Midlands (UK), comparing...
Authors: Mistry et al.
