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Emerging therapies for patients with penile cancer

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“We still debate and there’s some good data that [supports that] chemotherapy is not that effective for patients with penile cancer,” says Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FACS.

In this video, Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FACS, discusses the challenges of treating penile cancer and new treatment options for these patients, which were topics focused on at the 2021 Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting. Spiess is a genitourinary oncologist and assistant chief of surgical services at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

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