Stanley Tang, Clare Akers, Hussain Alnajjar, Ben Ayres, Cinzia Baldini, Andrew Embleton-Thirsk, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Paul Hadway, Vivekanandan Kumar, Maurice Lau, Raj Nigam, Karl Pang, Arie Parnham, Elena Pizzo, Veronica Ranieri, Rowland Rees, Vijay Sangar, Anvi Wadke, Norman Williams, Asif Muneer
BACKGROUND: Penile cancer is a rare male genital malignancy. Surgical excision of the primary tumour is followed by radical inguinal lymphadenectomy if there is metastatic disease detected by biopsy, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) or following sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with impalpable disease. However, radical inguinal lymphadenectomy is associated with a high morbidity rate, and there is increasing usage of a videoendoscopic approach as an alternative. METHODS: A pragmatic, UK-wide multicentre feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT), comparing videoendoscopic radical inguinal lymphadenectomy versus open radical inguinal lymphadenectomy...
April 10, 2024: Pilot and Feasibility Studies