Cancer Type | St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou

Penile Cancer

Penile Cancer Introduction
Penile Cancer Treatment
Penile Cancer Symptoms
Penile Cancer Diagnosis
Penile Cancer Staging

What is penile cancer?

Penile cancer as one of the most common malignant tumors in male reproductive system, it mainly presents as squamous cancer, basal cell cancer with the main symptoms including redundant prepuce, phimosis, prepuce balanitis and ulcer of penis. Adenocarcinoma are rare.

Penile cancer mainly develops in old males with the average age around 60 years old. As age increases, the incidence is higher and would reach the highest point at 70 years old. Occasionally, it develops in young men too.

Although the causes of penile cancer are unclear, according to clinic observation and statistics, the onset is related to phimosis and redundant prepuce.

So can middle and late-staged penile cancer be treated? The minimally invasive technique with less side effects and less trauma can help brain cancer patients avoid surgical resection, avoid the pain of traditional radiotherapy and chemotherapy, effectively prolong the survival period and improve the quality of life.

For more knowledge about cancer, please click online doctors for consultation.

Penile Cancer Traditional Treatment Methods

Surgical treatmentSurgery to remove cancerous tissue and clean cervical lymph nodes that may have metastasis.
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy for follicular adenocarcinoma.
chemotherapyOften used as palliative therapy for inoperable or distantly metastatic advanced cancer.
Chinese treatmentTraditional Chinese medicine therapy can inhibit the development of cancer, improve the immune function of patients with thyroid cancer, and reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Penile Cancer Treatment Technology

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0818/7327.html

Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.　Under the guidance of image,...

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0818/7349.html

DEB-TACE

Drug-eluting bead transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) is an interventional therapy used in tumor treatment. It is a tiny sphere made of polymers or ceramics with a certain range of siz...

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0818/7311.html

Particle Knife

Particle knife (also called 125I Seed Implants) is applied to a variety of primary and metastatic tumors nowadays. 125I seeds are some small iodine radioactive particles that can give off short-range γ...

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0818/7346.html

Nanoknife Technology

Nanoknife is a brand-new cutting-edge ablation technology for tumor treatment. It breaks the membrane of tumor cells with high voltage pulses from electrode probes, resulting in multiple irreversible n...

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0728/7021.html

Combined Knife

Combined Knife, it’s not actual surgical knife, but a composite cryogenic freezing surgical system, which conduct cold and heat ablation treatment with liquid-nitrogen by one or more ablation needles...

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0728/7020.html

Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy, also named cryosurgery therapy or cryoablation, is a medical technique both ancient and modern....

https://www.moderncancerhospitalmy.com/treatment-technologies/2023/0728/7019.html

Interventional Therapy

Interventional therapy is a mini-invasive therapy performed under the guidance of medical imaging equipments. With a 1-2 millimeter incision, paracentesis can be performed with the lead of medical imag...

Penile Cancer Patients' Story

They come from different countries around the world, but they have experienced the same experience and endured the pain that cancer has brought to them. However, now, with the effective treatment and meticulous care of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, they have rekindled their confidence in life and become anti-cancer fighters. Here, they share their anti-cancer experience, love and warmth with everyone.

Rectal cancer: CHAN KHIAN YAP; Malaysiamore than 2 years

squamous cell carcinoma: Issa; Indonesia

Lung cancer: Phang Fuk Chon; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Lung cancer: Vuong Thi Hoa; Vietnamesemore than 2 years

Breast cancer: SWASTI SAWITRI SUYOTO; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Ganglioneuroma: SADIE; PhilippinesMore than 1 year

Lung Cancer: Mochamad Sadikin; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

thyroid cancer: Mutiara; IndonesiaMore than 3 years

Bone cancer: Siti Rosidah Sundari; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

Cervical cancer: Edoharidwi Doko; Indonesiamore than 2 years

MDT TEAM

: Pan Xiaofeng; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Attending Physician

: Zhai Xueli; Attending Physician,Oncology Department | Attending Physician

: Pan Xin; Resident physician, Oncology Department | Resident physician

: Qin Yubing; Attending physician ,Oncology Department | Attending physician

: Tan Chunyan; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: AGILA ADNAN; International Oncology Resident | Resident Physician

: Shen Shiheng; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Zhao Yifan; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Dong Kui; Attending Physician, International Oncology Ward | Oncologist

: Ma Yumei; Physician-in-Charge | Oncologist

Form

Patient's Name *

Cancer type *

Phone number *

Medical reports*

Yes No

Penile Cancer Symptoms

What are the clinical symptoms of penile cancer?

Tumor occurring in balanus or ulcer, which in early stage can be hard mass or erythema, is hard to recover. Other typical cases may present cauliflower-like tumor with necrotic appearance and smelly exudates. When it develops to late stage, penile cancer can encroach to the whole penis and corpus cavernosum urethrae, accompanied with other symptom like swelling lymph nodes in inguinal groove and femur.

Self examination for penile cancer

Specialist from Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou advised that, male can have a check on penis when taking a shower so as to find the lesions early. The exact procedures are: take a rotation on both sides of penis with forefinger and thumb, if enlargement, swelling, mild pain or a heavy feeling in inguinal grooves is found, rapid and further examination should be performed by specialist in hospital.

For more knowledge about cancer, please click online doctors for consultation.

Penile Cancer Diagnosis

How to detect penile cancer?

Imaging examinationlymphography can help to diagnose metastases certainly, but normally it won’t be taken as routine examination. Perform the contrast radiography of intralymphatic injection through insteps of feet, penis and spermatic cord, signs like irregular lymph nodes, filling defect of lymph nodes, deformation, depression or blockage of lymphatic vessels would present if metastases exist.

Ultrasound B can find out any metastasis in liver and abdominal cavity.

CT, MRI can detect if penile cancer spreads to retroperitoneum, other organs and other parts of body.

Other examinationsWhen the tumor only has hard sclerosis and is without ulceration, and if is being covered by prepuce, circumcision can be given to expose the tumor. Then through local tissue biopsy, caner can be diagnosed. Biopsy is the most important proof in histological diagnosis . Take the biopsy of primary cancer can firmly diagnose the histological type and stage of cancer. The biopsy of inguinal lymph nodes can exactly detect the spread of cancer, which helps doctor to plan out treatment clinically.

What is the meaning of penile cancer biopsy?

Biopsy is a standard diagnostic method of squamous cell carcinoma of penis. Biopsy offers useful information to cancer staging and histological classification. It can confirm the small lesions and encroaching depth. The bigger tumors are, the easier to judge infiltration degree through check-up and imaging examinations. Combing these scattered information together would help to stage cancer correctly, and to judge the possibility of microcosmic metastases without obvious clinical cancer metastatic symptoms (namely, to touch metastatic lymph nodes).

For more knowledge about cancer, please click online doctors for consultation.

Penile Cancer Staging

How does penile cancer spread?

Penile cancer is a malignant cancer threatening male health. Early detection and treatments are the key to prevent it from spreading. There are three ways for penile cancer to spread.

Local spread, the cancer spreads in circumcrescent way from glans to the root of penis, which can further encroach to fascia penis, corpus cavernosum, even to scrotum, lower abdominal wall and urethra.

Lymph spread. The most common position to develop penile cancer metastases is inguinal lymph nodes.

Blood spread, it often spreads to lungs, liver, and after that are bones and brain.

For more knowledge about cancer, please click online doctors for consultation.