Differences in Survival Associated with Performance of Lymph Node Dissection in Patients with Invasive Penile Cancer: Results from the National Cancer Database

Abstract

At hospitals that report to the National Cancer Database the overall rate of inguinal lymphadenectomy in patients with invasive penile cancer was only 27.2%. Inguinal lymphadenectomy was associated with increased overall survival, justifying the procedure as an important quality metric for performance reporting in patients with invasive penile cancer.