The Goal of Achieving High-Quality Surgical First-Line Therapy in Patients with Penile Cancer Is Important; However, Some Collective Efforts Are Still Required in Order to Reach It. Comment on Brassetti et al. Combined Reporting of Surgical Quality and Cancer Control after Surgical Treatment for Penile Tumors with Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection: The Tetrafecta Achievement. Curr. Oncol. 2023, 30, 1882-1892

Matthias May; Steffen Lebentrau; Ben Ayres; Maarten Albersen; Chris Protzel; Jad Chahoud; Oscar R Brouwer; Curtis A Pettaway; Lance C Pagliaro; Andrea Necchi; Nick Watkin; Oliver W Hakenberg; Philippe E Spiess

doi:10.3390/curroncol30040325

The Goal of Achieving High-Quality Surgical First-Line Therapy in Patients with Penile Cancer Is Important; However, Some Collective Efforts Are Still Required in Order to Reach It. Comment on Brassetti et al. Combined Reporting of Surgical Quality and Cancer Control after Surgical Treatment for Penile Tumors with Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection: The Tetrafecta Achievement. Curr. Oncol. 2023, 30, 1882-1892

Curr Oncol. 2023 Apr 19;30(4):4269-4274. doi: 10.3390/curroncol30040325.

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¹ Department of Urology, St. Elisabeth-Clinic Straubing, Brothers of Mercy Hospital, 94315 Straubing, Germany.
² Department of Urology, University of Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
³ Department of Urology, St George's University Hospitals NHS, London SW17 0QT, UK.
⁴ Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Urology, Helios Clinics Schwerin, 19055 Schwerin, Germany.
⁶ Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
⁷ Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Urology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
⁹ Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55902, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Urology, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and Scientific Institute, 20132 Milano, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Urology, University Medical Center Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany.

Abstract

We read with great interest the manuscript by Brassetti et al. recently published in your journal and hope it will encourage discussion and debate around the optimization of the surgical management of patients with penile cancer (PECa) [...].

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Goals
Humans
Lymph Node Excision
Lymphatic Metastasis
Male
Penile Neoplasms* / pathology
Penile Neoplasms* / surgery