Cancer of the Penis in a Child Aged Two Years

In India, information regarding the incidence of cancer is very incomplete. Patients frequently present themselves at an out-patient department in an inoperable condition and are therefore not admitted. Hospital in-patients records are therefore very unreliable; some valuable information is available from outpatient departments. One attempt was made by the author to carefully classify, record, index, and photograph with pathological reports of conditions that were inoperable in the out-patient department. Cases that were operable were admitted and treated. The result of this was a classification of 335 cases from 1932 to 1934 (Kini) of which 52 were cancer of the penis. In the 52' cases of cancer of the penis classified (Kini and Rao, 1937), all were found among the Hindus. No case was found among Mohammedans. The average age at which the disease manifested itself was 45.3 years. The youngest was 35 years and the oldest 60 years. In children, very few cases of carcinoma of-the penis are described; Creiti described a typical embryonal carcinoma of the corpus cavernosum in a child aged 2 years. Curtis refers to a case of Weir's at the age of 18. Freyer reports a case in a boy of 17 (Herman, 1938). The following case is interesting as it resembles the case described by Creiti. This was not included in the classification published, as it was seen in 1936. In 1936, a child aged 2 years was admitted for a swelling in the lower part of the penis behind the tip, with a duration of two months. The mother said that she first noticed a small swelling on the dorsum of the penis behind the tip. The swelling began to grow rapidly, causing difficulty in passing urine with dribbling of blood from the tip of the penis, for which the child