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Radical penectomy, a compromise for life: results from the PECAD study by Jamil Ghahhari; Michele Marchioni; Philippe E. Spiess; Juan J. Chipollini; Peter Nyirády; Judith Varga; Pasquale Ditonno; Stefano Boccasile; Giulia Primiceri; Cosimo De Nunzio; Giorgia Tema; Andrea Tubaro; Alessandro Veccia; Alessandro Antonelli; Gennaro Musi; Ottavio De Cobelli; Andrea Conti; Stefano Puliatti; Salvatore Micali; Mario Álvarez-Maestro; José Quesada Olarte; Erico Diogenes; Marcos Venicio Alves Lima; Andrew Tracey; Georgi Guruli; Riccardo Autorino; Petros Sountoulides; Roman Sosnowski; Luigi Schips; Luca Cindolo is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background The use of organ sparing strategies to treat penile cancer (PC) is currently supported by evidence that has indicated the safety, efficacy and benefit of this surgery. However, radical penectomy still represents up to 15–20% of primary tumor treatments in PC patients. The aim of the study was to evaluate efficacy in terms of overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) of radical penectomy in PC patients. ## Methods Data from a retrospective multicenter study (PEnile Cancer ADherence study, PECAD Study) on PC patients treated at 13 European and American urological centers (Hospital “Sant’Andrea”, Sapienza University, Roma, Italy; “G.D’Annunzio” University, Chieti and ASL 2 Abruzzo, Hospital “S. Pio da Pietrelcina”, Vasto, Italy; Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA; Hospital of Budapest, Hungary; Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Urology and Andrology Unit II, University of Bari, Italy; Hospital “Spedali Civili”, Brescia, Italy; Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain; Ceara Cancer

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Author

Jamil Ghahhari; Michele Marchioni; Philippe E. Spiess; Juan J. Chipollini; Peter Nyirády; Judith Varga; Pasquale Ditonno; Stefano Boccasile; Giulia Primiceri; Cosimo De Nunzio; Giorgia Tema; Andrea Tubaro; Alessandro Veccia; Alessandro Antonelli; Gennaro Musi; Ottavio De Cobelli; Andrea Conti; Stefano Puliatti; Salvatore Micali; Mario Álvarez-Maestro; José Quesada Olarte; Erico Diogenes; Marcos Venicio Alves Lima; Andrew Tracey; Georgi Guruli; Riccardo Autorino; Petros Sountoulides; Roman Sosnowski; Luigi Schips; Luca Cindolo

Publisher

AME Publishing Company (ISSN 2223-4683)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)