National cancer institute National cancer institute hospital cancer records of patients with penile neoplasia residing in Montes Claros
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objective: to analyze the profile of patients with penile cancer between 2019 and 2022 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Methods: a descriptive study with a quantitative approach was carried out using data from men diagnosed with penile neoplasia registered in the hospital records of the José Alencar Gomes da Silva National Cancer Institute. Results: in the period between 2019 and 2022, 32 cases of patients with penile cancer were registered in the information system. Conclusion: the men who were diagnosed with penile neoplasia were in the age group of young and elderly adults, brown, with low education, married, with an important history of alcoholism and smoking and cancer in the family, the clinical cancer was advanced in the degree of carcinogenesis, squamous cell carcinoma was the most prevalent histological type, surgery was the most used therapeutic modality, and there was a lack of data on the status of the final disease after one year of treatment.
Authors: Taysa Cristina Cardoso Freitas, Hellen Juliana Costa Diniz, Renata Di Pietro Carvalho, Josiane Steil Siewert, Letícia Lima Silva de Abreu, Flaviane Mello Lazarini, Amanda de Andrade Costa, Viviane Dias Souto, Marlete Scremin, Davidson Gonçalves Soares, Marcos Gabriel de Jesus Rodrigues, Victória Sabrina Ferreira de Assis, Kesia Barbosa dos Reis, Anielly Geovanna Santos Leopoldo, Maria Cristina Ferreira Silva
Language: English
Topic: Genital Health and Disease
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410640407