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OBJECTIVE: To present the long-term adjuvant radiotherapy outcomes of patients with pN3 squamous cell carcinoma of the penis (SCCp) treated at two UK centres. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective audit of all pN3 SCCp patients, deemed suitable for adjuvant therapy by a specialist multidisciplinary team at St George's and Leeds Hospitals, who received adjuvant radiotherapy. Primary outcomes were recurrence-free survival (RFS), cancer-specific survival (CSS) and overall survival (OS). Secondary outcomes were time to adjuvant treatment, frequency of in-field recurrence, site and side of recurrence, and dose and schedule of radiotherapy. RESULTS: A total of 146 patients were included: 121 completed radiotherapy, 4 did not complete radiotherapy and 21 did not start it. The median (interquartile range [IQR]) age was 59 (54-70)years. The 5-year RFS was 51%, CSS was 51% and OS was 44%. Adjuvant radiotherapy was started at a median (IQR) of 75 (48-106) days. A dose of 45 Gy in 20 fractions was most commonly used. Of the 125 patients who started adjuvant treatment, 55 relapsed. Of these relapses, 30 occurred in an inguinal or pelvic nodal station and 26 of the 30 were in a radiation field. Relapses in 18 of the 55 cases were in visceral sites only and seven were in both nodal (non-irradiated sites) and visceral sites. Doses of <50 Gy were used more commonly before 2013 and higher doses (>50 Gy) were more commonly used after 2013. CONCLUSIONS: Application of a standard radiotherapy protocol within a centralized supra-network setting has achieved survival outcomes that would appear better than those previously documented for either radiotherapy or chemotherapy in a cohort with solely pN3 disease. The addition of adjuvant chemotherapy may improve these outcomes further. These data suggest that adjuvant radiotherapy has a role to play in the management of men with pN3 SCCp.
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Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/radioterapia , Neoplasias Penianas/radioterapia , Idoso , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Neoplasias Penianas/patologia , Radioterapia Adjuvante , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de TempoRESUMO
'When I use a word' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less'. 'The question is' said Alice 'whether you can make words mean so many different things'. Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll, 1872.
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Compreensão , Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido/legislação & jurisprudência , Competência Mental/legislação & jurisprudência , Complicações Pós-Operatórias/etiologia , Vasectomia/efeitos adversos , Humanos , Masculino , Reino Unido , Vasectomia/legislação & jurisprudênciaRESUMO
Identification of transcription factors expressed by differentiated cells is informative not only of tissue-specific pathways, but to help identify master regulators for cellular reprogramming. If applied, such an approach could generate healthy autologous tissue-specific cells for clinical use where cells from the homologous tissue are unavailable due to disease. Normal human epithelial cells of buccal and urothelial derivation maintained in identical culture conditions that lacked significant instructive or permissive signaling cues were found to display inherent similarities and differences of phenotype. Investigation of transcription factors implicated in driving urothelial-type differentiation revealed buccal epithelial cells to have minimal or absent expression of PPARG, GATA3 and FOXA1 genes. Retroviral overexpression of protein coding sequences for GATA3 or PPARy1 in buccal epithelial cells resulted in nuclear immunolocalisation of the respective proteins, with both transductions also inducing expression of the urothelial differentiation-associated claudin 3 tight junction protein. PPARG1 overexpression alone entrained expression of nuclear FOXA1 and GATA3 proteins, providing objective evidence of its upstream positioning in a transcription factor network and identifying it as a candidate factor for urothelial-type transdifferentiation or reprogramming.
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Mucosa Bucal/citologia , Mucosa Bucal/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Urotélio/citologia , Urotélio/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular , Transdiferenciação Celular , Células Cultivadas , Reprogramação Celular , Células Epiteliais/citologia , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Fator de Transcrição GATA3/genética , Fator de Transcrição GATA3/metabolismo , Fator 3-alfa Nuclear de Hepatócito/genética , Fator 3-alfa Nuclear de Hepatócito/metabolismo , Humanos , PPAR gama/genética , PPAR gama/metabolismo , Fenótipo , Engenharia Tecidual , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Uroplaquinas/genética , Uroplaquinas/metabolismoRESUMO
Extra-hepatic metabolism of xenobiotics by epithelial tissues has evolved as a self-defence mechanism but has potential to contribute to the local activation of carcinogens. Bladder epithelium (urothelium) is bathed in excreted urinary toxicants and pro-carcinogens. This study reveals how differentiation affects cytochrome P450 (CYP) activity and the role of NADPH:P450 oxidoreductase (POR). CYP1A1 and CYP1B1 transcripts were inducible in normal human urothelial (NHU) cells maintained in both undifferentiated and functional barrier-forming differentiated states in vitro. However, ethoxyresorufin O-deethylation (EROD) activity, the generation of reactive BaP metabolites and BaP-DNA adducts, were predominantly detected in differentiated NHU cell cultures. This gain-of-function was attributable to the expression of POR, an essential electron donor for all CYPs, which was significantly upregulated as part of urothelial differentiation. Immunohistology of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) revealed significant overall suppression of POR expression. Stratification of MIBC biopsies into "luminal" and "basal" groups, based on GATA3 and cytokeratin 5/6 labeling, showed POR over-expression by a subgroup of the differentiated luminal tumors. In bladder cancer cell lines, CYP1-activity was undetectable/low in basal PORlo T24 and SCaBER cells and higher in the luminal POR over-expressing RT4 and RT112 cells than in differentiated NHU cells, indicating that CYP-function is related to differentiation status in bladder cancers. This study establishes POR as a predictive biomarker of metabolic potential. This has implications in bladder carcinogenesis for the hepatic versus local activation of carcinogens and as a functional predictor of the potential for MIBC to respond to prodrug therapies.
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Citocromo P-450 CYP1A1/genética , Citocromo P-450 CYP1B1/genética , Sistema Enzimático do Citocromo P-450/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/metabolismo , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Diferenciação Celular , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Regulação para Baixo , Feminino , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Análise Serial de Tecidos , Neoplasias da Bexiga Urinária/genética , Urotélio/citologia , Urotélio/metabolismo , Xenobióticos/farmacologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Current treatments for erectile dysfunction (ED) have some limitations. AIM: This study evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of MED2005, a 0.2% glyceryl trinitrate topical gel, formulated into an enhanced absorption topical delivery system (DermaSys), administered on demand, in the treatment of ED. METHODS: This randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase II crossover trial involved 232 men with ED (231 treated, 230 assessed for efficacy) and their partners. After a 4-week run-in period, patients were randomized to 1 of 2 treatment sequences, MED2005-placebo or placebo-MED2005. Each treatment was given for 4 weeks, separated by a 1-week washout interval. Efficacy was assessed by the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), the Sexual Encounter Profile, a Global Assessment Questionnaire (GAQ), and specific questions about the onset and offset of action and treatment preferences (patients and partners). OUTCOMES: The primary outcome measure was the IIEF erectile function domain (IIEF-EF) score. Other efficacy assessments were secondary outcomes. RESULTS: The mean baseline IIEF-EF score was 17.1 (SD = 5.7), and this increased to 19.6 (SD = 7.5) after MED2005 treatment and 18.5 (SD = 6.7) after placebo (P = .0132). Overall, 23.1% of patients showed a clinically relevant (≥4-point) increase in IIEF-EF scores after treatment with MED2005 only compared with 14.5% who responded after MED2005 and placebo, 14.0% who responded after placebo only, and 48.4% who did not respond after either treatment (P = .0272). MED2005 also was associated with significant improvements compared with placebo in the other IIEF domains, and this was consistent with patients' and partners' responses to the GAQ. For all assessments, significant effects of MED2005 were seen primarily in patients with mild ED. The start of erection was noticed within 5 and 10 minutes in 44.2% and 69.5%, respectively, of all intercourse attempts with MED2005. Patients and partners showed significant preferences for MED2005 over placebo. The most commonly reported adverse events during MED2005 treatment were headache (patients, n = 18 [7.9%]; partners, n = 3 [1.3%]) and nasopharyngitis (patients, n = 13 [5.7%]; partners, n = 2 [0.9%]). CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: These findings suggest that topical glyceryl trinitrate could be a useful treatment option in ED. STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS: Strengths of this study include the use of a validated outcome measure. Limitations include the use of only 1 dosage. CONCLUSION: Further studies are warranted to investigate the efficacy of topical glyceryl trinitrate to include higher doses, thereby improving clinical significance, especially in cases of moderate and severe ED. Ralph DJ, Eardley I, Taubel J, et al. Efficacy and Safety of MED2005, a Topical Glyceryl Trinitrate Formulation, in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction: A Randomized Crossover Study. J Sex Med 2018;15:167-175.
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Disfunção Erétil/tratamento farmacológico , Nitroglicerina/administração & dosagem , Ereção Peniana/efeitos dos fármacos , Adulto , Idoso , Coito , Estudos Cross-Over , Método Duplo-Cego , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Comportamento Sexual/efeitos dos fármacos , Parceiros Sexuais , Inquéritos e Questionários , Resultado do Tratamento , Adulto JovemRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: This review was designed to make recommendations on future educational needs, principles of curricular development, and how the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) should address the need to enhance and promote human sexuality education around the world. AIM: To explore the ways in which graduate and postgraduate medical education in human sexuality has evolved and is currently delivered. METHODS: We reviewed existing literature concerning sexuality education, curriculum development, learning strategies, educational formats, evaluation of programs, evaluation of students, and faculty development. We reviewed literature relating to four main areas: (i) the current status of the international regulation of training in sexual medicine; (ii) the current delivery of education and training in sexual medicine; (iii) resident and postgraduate education in sexual medicine surgery; and (iv) education and training for allied health professionals. RESULTS: The main findings in these four areas are as follows. Sexual medicine has grown considerably as a specialty during the past 20 years, with many drivers being identified. However, the regulatory aspects of training, assessment, and certification are currently in the early stages of development and are in many ways lagging behind the scientific and clinical knowledge in the field. However, there are examples of the development of curricula with accompanying assessments that have attempted to set standards of education and training that might underlie the delivery of high-quality care to patients in sexual medicine. The development of competence assessment has been applied to surgical training in sexual medicine, and there is increasing interest in simulation as a means of enhancing technical skills training. Although the focus of curriculum development has largely been the medical profession, there is early interest in the development of standards for training and education of allied health professionals. CONCLUSION: Organizations of professionals in sexual health, such as the ISSM, have an opportunity, and indeed a responsibility, to provide and disseminate learning opportunities, curricula, and standards of training for doctors and allied health professionals in sexual medicine. Eardley I, Reisman Y, Goldstein S, et al. Existing and Future Educational Needs in Graduate and Postgraduate Education. J Sex Med 2017;14:475-485.
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Educação Médica Continuada/tendências , Educação Sexual/tendências , Sexologia/educação , Currículo , Educação Médica/tendências , Educação de Pós-Graduação em Medicina , Humanos , Disfunções Sexuais Fisiológicas/diagnóstico , Disfunções Sexuais Fisiológicas/terapia , Disfunções Sexuais Psicogênicas/diagnóstico , Disfunções Sexuais Psicogênicas/terapia , Sociedades MédicasRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: To assess the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in predicting invasion of the tunica albuginea (TA) and the urethra during the primary staging of penile cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In all, 104 consecutive patients with clinical T1-T3 penile cancer had a penile MRI as a part of local staging protocol. An artificial erection was induced before MRI by injecting alprostadil (prostaglandin E1 ). Four men with poor quality MRI images were excluded from the study. The preoperative MRI was compared with final histology to assess its accuracy in predicting the invasion of the TA and urethra. RESULTS: Data of 100 patients who underwent penile MRI before definitive surgery for invasive penile carcinoma were available for analysis. The mean age was 65 years and number of patients with pathological stage T1, T2 and T3 was 32, 52, and 16, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of MRI in predicting the invasion of TA and urethra was 82.1% and 73.6%, and 62.5% and 82.1%, respectively. There were no MRI-related complications. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that penile MRI is an accurate method for assessing TA invasion but is less sensitive in assessing urethral invasion. These results support the use of MRI in the local staging of penile cancer.
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Neoplasias Penianas/patologia , Neoplasias Uretrais/patologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/normas , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Invasividade Neoplásica/patologia , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Sensibilidade e EspecificidadeRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: This article explores the evolution and current delivery of undergraduate medical education in human sexuality. AIM: To make recommendations regarding future educational needs, principles of curricular development, and how the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) should address the need to enhance and promote human sexuality education around the world. METHODS: The existing literature was reviewed for sexuality education, curriculum development, learning strategies, educational formats, evaluation of programs, evaluation of students, and faculty development. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The prevailing theme of most publications in this vein is that sexuality education in undergraduate medical education is currently not adequate to prepare students for future practice. RESULTS: We identified components of the principles of attitudes, knowledge, and skills that should be contained in a comprehensive curriculum for undergraduate medical education in human sexuality. Management of sexual dysfunction; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health care; sexuality across genders and lifespan; understanding of non-normative sexual practices; sexually transmitted infections and HIV, contraception; abortion; sexual coercion and violence; and legal aspects were identified as topics meriting particular attention. CONCLUSION: Curricula should be integrated throughout medical school and based on principles of adult learning. Methods of teaching should be multimodal and evaluations of student performance are critical. To realize much of what needs to be done, faculty development is critical. Thus, the ISSM can play a key role in the provision and dissemination of learning opportunities and materials, it can promote educational programs around the world, and it can articulate a universal curriculum with modules that can be adopted. The ISSM can create chapters, review documents, slide decks, small group and roleplay topics, and video-recorded materials and make all this material easily available. An expert consensus conference would be needed to realize these recommendations and fulfill them.
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Educação de Graduação em Medicina/métodos , Medicina Reprodutiva/educação , Educação Sexual/métodos , Comportamento Sexual , Adulto , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Currículo , Feminino , Humanos , Saúde Reprodutiva , Faculdades de Medicina/estatística & dados numéricos , Adulto JovemAssuntos
Betacoronavirus , Infecções por Coronavirus/terapia , Transmissão de Doença Infecciosa/prevenção & controle , Pandemias , Pneumonia Viral/terapia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios/métodos , Triagem/organização & administração , Carga de Trabalho/estatística & dados numéricos , COVID-19 , Transmissão de Doença Infecciosa/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2 , Reino Unido/epidemiologiaRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between urological procedures and the development of infective endocarditis (IE), as there are case-reports linking urological procedures to IE but evidence of a causal relationship is lacking and no major guidelines advise prophylaxis to prevent development of IE during transurethral urological procedures. No case-control study has been undertaken to examine the relationship between urological procedures and the development of IE. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective evaluation of the IE database at our institution. The population consisted of patients diagnosed with enterococcal, staphylococcal, Streptococcus bovis-group and oral streptococcal IE over a 10-year period. Possible risk factors for the development of IE, including urological procedures were collected. A case-control design was used and univariable and multivariable analyses were carried out. Missing data was accounted for using the multiple imputations method. RESULTS: We included 384 patients with IE. There was a statistical association between the development of enterococcal IE and preceding urological procedures (odds ratio 8.21, 95% confidence interval 3.54-19.05, P < 0.05). Increasing age and being an intravenous drug user were also associated with enterococcal IE. Haemodialysis and the presence of an intracardiac device were associated with the development of coagulase-negative staphyloccal IE. CONCLUSION: This is the first study to show a statistical association between urological procedures and the development of IE. The bacteraemia leading to IE may be a result of the urological procedures or a consequence of the underlying urological pathology causing recurrent subclinical bacteraemias.
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Endocardite Bacteriana/epidemiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/epidemiologia , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Urológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores Etários , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Endocardite Bacteriana/etiologia , Feminino , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Marca-Passo Artificial/efeitos adversos , Diálise Renal/efeitos adversos , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de Risco , Infecções Estafilocócicas/epidemiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/etiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/epidemiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/etiologia , Abuso de Substâncias por Via Intravenosa/complicações , Abuso de Substâncias por Via Intravenosa/epidemiologia , Resultado do Tratamento , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Urológicos/efeitos adversosRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate deceased non-heart beating (DNHB) donors and deceased heart beating (DHB) brain-stem dead donors, as sources of viable urological tissue for use in biomedical research. To identify sources of viable human bladder tissue as an essential resource for cell biological research aimed at understanding human diseases of the bladder and for developing new tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies for bladder reconstruction. Typically, normal human urinary tract tissue is obtained from adult or paediatric surgical patients with benign urological conditions, but few surgical procedures yield useful quantities of healthy bladder tissue for research. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Research ethics committee approval was obtained for collection of donor bladder tissue. Consent for DHB donors was undertaken by the Donor Transplant Coordinators. Tissue Donor Coordinators were responsible for consent for DNHB donors and the retrieval of bladders was coordinated through the National Blood Service Tissue Banking Service. All retrievals were performed by practicing urologists and care was taken to maintain sterility and to minimise bacterial contamination. Two bladders were retrieved from DNHB donors and four were retrieved from DHB donors. RESULTS: By histology, DNHB donor bladder tissue exhibited marked urothelial tissue damage and necrosis, with major loss or absence of urothelium. No cell cultures could be established from these specimens, as the urothelial cells were not viable in primary culture. Bladder urothelium from DHB donors was intact, but showed some damage, including loss of superficial cells and variable separation from the basement membrane. All four DHB bladder specimens yielded viable urothelial cells that attached in primary culture, but cell growth was slow to establish and cultures showed a limited capacity to form a functional barrier epithelium and a propensity to senesce early. CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that normal human bladder urothelial cell cultures can be established and serially propagated from DHB donor bladders. However, our study suggests that rapid post-mortem changes to the bladder affect the quality and viability of the urothelium, rendering tissue from DNHB donors an inadequate source for urothelial cell culture. Our experience is that whereas patients are willing to donate surgical tissue for research, there is a barrier to obtaining consent from next of kin for retrieved tissues to be used for research purposes.
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Pesquisa Biomédica , Técnicas de Cultura de Células/métodos , Doadores de Tecidos , Bexiga Urinária/citologia , Urotélio/citologia , Pesquisa Biomédica/tendências , Técnicas de Cultura de Células/tendências , Proliferação de Células , Células Cultivadas , Feminino , Humanos , Imuno-Histoquímica , MasculinoRESUMO
To compare the oncological safety of treating patients with penile cancer with conservative techniques developed to preserve function, cosmesis and psychological well-being with more radical ablative strategies. We conducted an extensive review of the literature of penile-preserving and ablative techniques and report on the oncological as well as functional outcomes. There were no randomised studies comparing penile-preserving and ablative techniques. Most studies consisted of retrospective cohorts. The quality of evidence was level 3 at best. Cancer-specific survival is similar in penile-preserving and ablative approaches for low-stage disease. Penile preservation is better for functional and cosmetic outcomes and should be offered as a primary treatment method in men with low-stage penile cancer.
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Tratamentos com Preservação do Órgão , Neoplasias Penianas , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Urológicos Masculinos , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: The United Kingdom is unusual in that a significant proportion of patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) have their treatment fully reimbursed by the National Health Service (NHS). This may have consequences for the choice of treatment and for compliance with treatment. AIMS: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use and cost implications of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor in an NHS setting. METHODS: Basic demographics and data on ED management for patients treated from January 2000 to April 2011 were obtained from a prospectively accrued database. We reviewed drug usage and costs as well as switching between drugs. Patients were given the choice of all available therapies and were followed up annually. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Switching, compliance, and costs of treating ED under the "severe distress" criteria in the NHS were reviewed for this study. RESULTS: Two thousand one hundred fifty-nine patients qualified for reimbursed therapy. Two hundred twenty-six patients were excluded from further analysis owing to missing data. Patients were followed up on an annual basis. The mean patient age was 60.2 years (min 23, max 90), and the mean follow-up was 50.8 months (min 1, max 127). Six hundred ninety-six were started on sildenafil, 990 on tadalafil, 163 on vardenafil, and 84 on intracavernosal alprostadil. Eighteen percent of patients initially started on the scheme and stopped medication unilaterally. Of the patients, 12.3% changed their medication during follow-up. The cost of drugs increased year by year from £257,100 in 2007 to £352,519 in 2011. CONCLUSIONS: Our real-life observational study shows that in our institution, dropout of therapy is unusual. We hypothesize that this reflects, in part, the reimbursement issue. We also found that switching between drugs was unusual, although there are several possible explanations for that. Although this is a successful system for the patients, the hospital, which bears the costs of medication, is finding this an increasing economic drain.
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Disfunção Erétil/tratamento farmacológico , Inibidores da Fosfodiesterase 5/uso terapêutico , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Assistência Ambulatorial/economia , Carbolinas/economia , Carbolinas/uso terapêutico , Custos de Medicamentos , Disfunção Erétil/economia , Humanos , Imidazóis/economia , Imidazóis/uso terapêutico , Estudos Longitudinais , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Cooperação do Paciente , Inibidores da Fosfodiesterase 5/economia , Piperazinas/economia , Piperazinas/uso terapêutico , Purinas/economia , Purinas/uso terapêutico , Citrato de Sildenafila , Medicina Estatal/economia , Sulfonas/economia , Sulfonas/uso terapêutico , Tadalafila , Triazinas/economia , Triazinas/uso terapêutico , Reino Unido , Dicloridrato de Vardenafila , Adulto JovemRESUMO
AIM: To explore how men with penile cancer construct humour in relation to their diagnosis and treatment. BACKGROUND: Functionalist, relief and incongruity theories attempt to account for humour, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence in nursing care. This is particularly so in relation to a condition like penile cancer where some nurses think that humour in their interactions with patients would be inappropriate. DESIGN: The study employed a participative, mixed-qualitative-methods design. METHOD: Focus groups and patient-conducted interviews were both used during a one-day 'pilot workshop' in March 2011. The data were initially analysed using framework analysis. This paper explores the theme of humour in depth. FINDINGS: Humour helped participants make light of their condition, which meant that they could laugh about the consequences of treatment ('laughing about urination') and build rapport with health professionals ('humour with health professionals'). Nevertheless, the use of humour was less important than the treatment of their cancer ('humour discounted') and there was a fear that they would be subject to ridicule because of their condition ('fear of ridicule'). CONCLUSION: The findings suggest a combination of functionalist, relief and incongruity theories of humour; the emotions these men experience are contained (functionalist) and released (relief) through humorous interaction, and the potential for comedy lies in an incongruity between what is expected socially and the experiences of these men, for example, around expectations that men use urinals in public toilets. Nurses should continue to use humour to build rapport with patients, should they judge this to be appropriate, although they may want to avoid jokes about sexual and urinary functioning until after treatment.
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Masculinidade , Neoplasias Penianas/terapia , Senso de Humor e Humor como Assunto , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias Penianas/psicologiaRESUMO
AIM: To explore the challenges of engaging men with penile cancer in qualitative interview research. BACKGROUND: Qualitative interviewing offers an ideal tool for exploring men's experiences of illness, complementing and providing context to gendered health inequalities identified in epidemiological research on men. But conducting interviews with men can be challenging and embarking on a qualitative interview study with males can feel like a daunting task, given the limited amount of practical, gender-sensitive guidance for researchers. Reflecting on a researcher's experience of conducting qualitative research on men with penile cancer, this paper explores the potential challenges of interviewing this group, but also documents how engagement and data collection were achieved. REVIEW METHODS: This is a reflective paper, informed by the experiences of a male researcher (KW) with no nurse training, who conducted 28 interviews with men who had been treated for penile cancer. The researcher's experiences are reported in chronological order, from the methodological challenges of recruitment to those of conducting the interview. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE/RESEARCH: The paper offers a resource for the novice researcher, highlighting some advantages and disadvantages of conducting qualitative interview research as a nurse researcher, as well as recommendations on how to overcome challenges. CONCLUSION: Engaging men with penile cancer in qualitative interview raises practical, methodological, ethical and emotional challenges for the researcher. However, when these challenges are met, men will talk about their health. Methodological procedures must enable an open and ongoing dialogue with clinical gatekeepers and potential participants to promote engagement. Support from colleagues is essential for any interviewer, no matter how experienced the researcher is.
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Entrevistas como Assunto/métodos , Pesquisa Metodológica em Enfermagem/métodos , Neoplasias Penianas/psicologia , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Relações Pesquisador-Sujeito/psicologia , Adulto , Humanos , Masculino , Neoplasias Penianas/enfermagemRESUMO
Lymph node status is a key prognostic factor in penile cancer. The European Association of Urology (EAU) recommends intermediate-risk (pT1a, Grade 2) or high-risk (pT1b or greater) penile cancer patients with clinically non-palpable inguinal lymph node (cN0) to undergo either an invasive bilateral modified inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND) or dynamic sentinel node biopsy (DSNB). DSNB has been reported to have acceptable false negative rates, and lower rates of long-term morbidity compared to ILND. We developed a protocol for DSNB at a regional hospital in Singapore that was adopted from St James's University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. Four patients with cN0 penile cancer underwent DSNB between November 2021 and October 2022 according to this protocol. Our surgical technique and protocol are described. The patients' oncological characteristics and their outcomes were evaluated. In this small case series, there was no complication attributable to the performance of DSNB, and there was no groin that was documented to be false negative over a median follow up of 15.5 months (range, 12 to 22 months). Using our protocol, 5 of 8 groins (62.5%) were able to avoid ILND in the cN0 setting. We recommend the adoption of DSNB for the surgical staging of inguinal lymph nodes for patients with intermediate to high-risk penile cancer and non-palpable inguinal nodes due to its significantly lower risks of long-term morbidity compared to ILND. Appropriate specialist training and a multi-disciplinary team is vital to ensure the success of the procedure.