The Clinical Complexity of Penile Cancer: Current Clinical-Epidemiological Data from the Database of the Free State of Saxony/Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to assess penile cancer incidence, clinical characteristics, treatment options, transparency of clinical quality, and relative survival based on data from the clinical cancer registry.

Subjects and methods

A total of 898 patients with tumours of the penis were diagnosed and analysed in the period from 2000 to 2018; they were documented in the 4 regional clinical cancer registries and summarized in the Command Office of these 4 registries.

Results

The standardized incidence rate increased from 0.86 in 2000 to 2.67 in 2018. Most tumours were located at the glans (42.9%) followed by the prepuce (19.5%) and corpus penis (6.9%); they were classified into pT1a/pT1b (20.0%/7.0%), pT2 (23.5%), pT3 (12.4%), and pT4 (0.8%). In only 32.0% of

SUBMITTER: Boehm WU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9393839 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature