New guide aims to stop men dying due to unawareness and shame
It took a knee injury while running the Dublin City Marathon in 2019 to get Cormac France to his GP about an issue with his penis.
No part of the body is immune to cancer, but the penile kind is rare. It usually affects men over the age of 50, but can occur in younger men. Treatment may necessitate partial or total amputation and reconstruction. “We must remember as well that penile cancer is, in the large part, a preventable cancer,” he says. One of the main causes are poor penile hygiene with phimosis, ie a tight foreskin, which prevents regular retraction and cleaning of the penis. “That leads to inflammation and it’s this chronic inflammatory process that can become cancerous.”
Some years ago patients would often have had their penis amputated, but “nowadays for most patients that will not be necessary. We can get away with removing part of the penis and a lot of times there are reconstructive surgeries that will use skin grafts and skin flaps to maintain as much of the form and function of the penis as possible.”
“I usually bring them into the family room just to do a debrief, explain any of the terms that they weren’t too sure about, and then I usually give the patients written information as well about the diagnosis.” “It’s just devastating that he left it so long,” says Dornan, who has 183 men on her books. The need for awareness raising extends to health professionals, as GPs will see few if any cases during their careers and the first point of referral is often a dermatologist when it appears to be a skin condition.
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