[Treatment of penile cancer]

The results of treatment of 252 cases of cancer of the penis were evaluated. Indications for available methods of treatment with regard to patient's age, stage and size of primary tumor were worked out. Conservative treatment should be given to cases of T1 and T2 tumors, combined treatment--T3, and palliative therapy--T4 neoplasms. An experience with cryodestruction of tumor in combination with chemotherapy is discussed. More advantage seems to be offered by application of radiation treatment in such cases. Three- and five-year survival rates for stage 1 tumors were 98.6 and 97.5%, stage II--84.5 and 83.3%, stage III--26.2 and 24.9% irrespective of the procedure. Not a single patient with stage IV tumor survived over one year.