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Survival Following Salvage Surgery after Failed Radiotherapy for Penile Cancer: A SEER-Based Study
Author(s) -
Mahmoud Khalil,
Fei Wan,
Ehab Eltahawy,
Rodney Davis,
Philippe E. Spiess,
Nabil K. Bissada,
Mohamed H. Kamel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
current urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1661-7657
pISSN - 1661-7649
DOI - 10.1159/000489432
Subject(s) - medicine , penile cancer , radiation therapy , brachytherapy , surgery , external beam radiotherapy , penis , cancer , survival rate
Salvage surgery (SS) for penile cancer (PC) is indicated in the management of local failure following radiation therapy (RT). Reports describing survival outcome are rare. This study aims to assess survival outcome of SS following RT failure in PC.