title: [Primary male urethral cancer: management and prognosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To further investigate the management and prognosis of primary urethral cancer in male.
  
  
  METHODS
  We treated 3 cases of primary urethral cancer from 2001 to 2011 and followed them up for recurrence and survival.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 3 male patients all received adjuvant radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, and 2 of them were treated by distal urethrectomy, while the other underwent no surgery. Follow-up visits revealed 2 cases of metastasis and 1 case of death.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Primary cancer of the male urethra is a rare malignancy with poor prognosis, for which radical resection is the main treatment method. Those in the relatively advanced stage can be treated by a combined method of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Fei
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Bing-Wei
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Sen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014523:Urethral Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*