Modern management of penile cancer
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Multidisciplinary management is the standard of care for common cancer subtypes, and it is particularly important for rare cancers such as penile cancer. Often clinical expertise may have to be concentrated into defined regional or supraregional cancer centres; thus patients may have to be treated at centres distant from their home town. For comprehensive management of the needs of penile patients, close communication is needed between the specialist cancer teams and local medical services, including community support services, particularly in the aftercare of surgery, for follow-up and in the palliative management of end-stage disease.
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