title: Penile carcinoma: a twenty-five-year experience.
abstract: The treatment of 34 patients with carcinoma of the penis was reviewed during a twenty-five-year period (1958-1983). There were 26 patients with Stage I disease, 7 patients with Stage II, and 1 patient with Stage III disease. Among the Stage I group, 12 patients underwent partial/total penectomy and immediate ilioinguinal lymphadenectomy; 14 patients were treated with partial/total penectomy and observation of clinically nonpalpable nodes. Within the observation period, 10 of the 26 patients died, with a mean survival time of one hundred thirty-three months (standard error = 20.4), and a median of one hundred twenty months. Both the Mantel-Cox and Breslow test statistics showed the survival distribution of these groups of patients not to be significantly different from each other. All 7 patients with Stage II penile cancer died, with a mean survival time of 10.6 months (standard error = 2.1) which is significantly different from the Stage I group and the reported survival of 30-60 percent in the literature. A plan of management for the primary lesion and the role of ilioinguinal lymphadenectomy are presented.
authors.affiliation: Section of Urology, Hines VA Hospital, Illinois.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Reda
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Waters
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007264:Inguinal Canal; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D010413:Penis / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate