Penile cancer with bulky inguinal metastasis has a high probability of harboring pathologically involved lymph nodes best managed in a multidisciplinary care setting. Appropriate staging with cross-sectional imaging and fine-needle aspirate cytology of suspicious nodes guide decision-making for the use of platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by inguinal lymph node dissection. Surgical resection plays an important diagnostic, therapeutic, and guiding role in disease management. Patients with adverse pathologic features, especially those with extranodal disease extension, may derive additional benefit from adjuvant radiotherapy.
Keyphrases
- lymph node
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- sentinel lymph node
- radical prostatectomy
- locally advanced
- early stage
- cross sectional
- decision making
- rectal cancer
- healthcare
- high resolution
- papillary thyroid
- prostate cancer
- quality improvement
- fine needle aspiration
- palliative care
- radiation therapy
- air pollution
- squamous cell carcinoma
- high grade
- squamous cell
- emergency department
- young adults
- lymph node metastasis
- affordable care act