Penis cancer

Penis cancer's disease overview

What is

What is penis cancer? The cancer comes from the binding cell of the penis very little.

Penis cancer is a common disease in Africa, Asia and South America; rarely in Europe. In Vietnam, the disease is relatively common (the incidence of penile cancer in Hanoi is 2.1/100,000 people; in Ho Chi Minh City, the disease accounts for 3.4% of the total number of cancer).

Causes of Penis cancer's disease

Causes of penile cancer include:

Foreskin narrowing:

  • Most of the penis cancer patients with foreskin narrow.
  • Foreskin stenosis makes it difficult to clean, enabling bacteria and viruses to grow, leading to the risk of penile cancer

    • Genital genital warts:

  • Due to the HPV virus (Human Papilloma)
  • Genital warts are often in the foreskin, skin and penis body. Maybe at the mouth of the flute, the first part of the urethra, the scrotum.

    • Other reasons:

  • Penisitis (especially foreskin, glans)
  • Sexual transmission such as syphilis
  • benign tumors in the penis (vascular tumor ..)

    • Symptoms of Penis cancer's disease

    Symptoms of penile cancer depend on the stage of the disease, the disease in place or have progressed metastases far away, whether or not metastatic lymphadenopathy.Early stage penile cancer:

  • Bleeding, smells of the penis (often encountered after intercourse). Toad or ulcer at the foreskin.
  • thin, brighter foreskin
  • If not detected and treated with broken tumors, causing necrosis of the penis skin. Pus fluid, odor. The lymphadenopathy can invade the veins of 1 or 2 legs.
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  • cancer spread throughout the penis, spreading the scrotum, mu skin. Li>
  • U can invade to the prostate and the bladder neck, there may be symptoms of distant metastases (lungs, bones, etc.)

    • People at risk for Penis cancer's disease

  • Non -circumcision: The circumcision leads to non -genital stagnation, no foreskin narrowing after the penis is chronic, especially when personal hygiene not good. People who do not have circumcision with penis cancer are much higher than those who have cut. Penis mail more than 10 times. Item, which may be related to the higher HPV infection rate in people who have sex indiscriminately. Ability to promote or develop directly into cancer: dry foreskin, white products, genital warts, ...

    • Prevention of Penis cancer's disease

  • Personal hygiene, especially the genitals
  • early detection of foreskin in children for timely intervention
  • Safe sex
  • thoroughly treat benign precancerous lesions
  • HPV vaccination

    • Diagnostic measures for Penis cancer's disease

    Diagnosis of penis cancer based on clinical symptoms as described above and some tests:

  • ultrasound: Determine the location, size and invasion of the primary tumor and the metastatic lymph nodes. Especially, especially in the case of penis sponge tumor. Helps check the groin area, pelvis, depth and invasion of the tumor. Li>

    Penis cancer's disease treatments

    Can penis cancer be cured? If the disease is detected in the early stages, it is possible to cure the penis cancer completely, preserving the penis for the patient.

  • Surgery is the main measure to treat penis cancer, including tumor cuts and area lymph nodes. Depending on the stage of the disease that preserves or amputated the penis, dredging the inguinal lymph nodes 1 or 2 sides.

    • Chemicals can be used before surgery to help shrink tumors and lymph nodes. Chemicals can also be used after anti -recurrent and metastatic surgery.

  • Radiation therapy is appointed after surgery or radiation therapy for symptomatic treatment (analgesic, bone metastatic penis cancer ...)

  • Radiological chemotherapy and in the case of widespread tumors without surgery, relieve pain, improve life time.

    • Monitoring after treatment:

  • Periodically examine every 3 months in the first 2 years and every 6 months for the next 3 years
  • In addition to the clinical examination, the patient will be abdominal ultrasound and film photography. Lung detection metastases.

    • See also:

  • What affects penis health and function? /Li>
  • erectile dysfunction: Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

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