Objective:

To describe 6 cases of penile cancer and examine their surgical management in a tertiary level hospital.

Methods:

Retrospective and descriptive study of penile cancer cases from april 2020 to may 2022 at the Hospital de Especialidades Eugenio Espejo in the city of Quito. Only cases with complete clinical history, confirmatory histopathological diagnosis and post-surgical controls were included.

Results:

We describe 6 patients with penile cancer with an average age of 69 years. In the histopathological study, five patients were diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma and one with nodular melanoma. The most frequent location was on the glans penis in four individuals. According to TNM classification, two patients were stratified as T3Nx, one as T3N1, one as T3N2, one as T4 and one as T4bN3b. In half of the cases, the treatment of choice was total penectomy plus bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy.

Conclusions:

Although penile cancer is a rare pathology, the identification of risk factors and primary lesions can help in the early diagnosis of cancer, thus avoiding metastasis to structures adnexal to the penis and consequent penectomies.

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