Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal (Mar 2022)

The Relationship of Circumcision With Clinical Tumor Staging of Penile Cancer

  • Marco Bandini,
  • Philippe E. Spiess,
  • Yao Zhu,
  • Antonio A. Ornellas,
  • Benjamin A. Ayres,
  • Oliver W. Hakenberg,
  • Friederike Haidl,
  • Filippo Pederzoli,
  • Giuseppe Basile,
  • Alberto Briganti ,
  • Francesco Montorsi ,
  • Juan Chipollini,
  • Mounsif Azizi,
  • Gert De Meerleer,
  • Oscar R. Brouwer,
  • Maarten Albersen,
  • Andrea Necchi,
  • Peter A. S. Johnstone

DOI
https://doi.org/10.48083/OIKH5959
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 102 – 107

Abstract

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In this report, we look at the relationship between prior circumcision and presenting stage of penile cancer. We performed an analysis of an international, multicenter database of 1254 penile cancer patients diagnosed from 1980 to 2019 in the United States, Europe, Brazil, and China, and analyzed the relationship between circumcision and presenting T and N stage. A total of 710 patients met the inclusion criteria and were statistically analyzed. We found that uncircumcised men with locally advanced tumors (T3–T4) had significantly higher risk of lymph node metastasis compared with circumcised men.

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