Penile cancer: 6,500 amputations in Brazil in a decade

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Between 2012 and 2022, there were 21,000 reported cases, according to Brazil’s Ministry of Health. This resulted in more than 4,000 deaths and, over the past decade, there have been more than 6,500 amputations - averaging two each day.

Maranhão, the poorest state in Brazil, was found to have the highest incidence rate globally at 6.1 per 100,000 men.

Symptoms of penile cancer often start with a sore on the penis that does not heal and a strong-smelling discharge. Some people get bleeding and colour changes of the penis, too.

When detected early, there is a high chance of recovery through treatments such as the surgical removal of the lesion, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

But if left untreated, partial or total amputation of the penis, and possibly other nearby genital organs such as the testicles, may become necessary.

werefreeatlast,

2 a day is manageable from the stand point of what do you do with all these chopped off penises! You just get the specialty furnace lit up and you chuck the dicks in one at a time and watch as they ablate into a gas.

librejoe,

But…how do they pee?

Crashumbc,

Sitting down…

Wahots,
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Good christ. Wash your dick, get your HPV vaccines, and don’t smoke. That sounds like a fucking nightmare if you need your urethra relocated.

sudo42,

From the article, it sounds like the HPV vaccine would help prevent these penile cancers.
Refresh my memory… weren’t Republicans up in arms trying to prevent their children from getting the HPV vaccine?

ipkpjersi,

Well, now I’m even more glad I got the HPV vaccine (I got the one for 9 types), damn.

I always thought it’d be possible that getting HPV could lead to a penile amputation like maybe in insanely rare cases, but holy fuck that 6500 seems like a large number to think about when you consider that 1 is too many.

realitista,

This is just the feel good story I was looking for today.

vivavideri,

Look, I don’t have a dick, but fuck, man, 2 a day is 2 too many.

Plopp,

Did you always not have one?

vivavideri,

Last I checked, and even the time before that, lol

Achsonaja,

We’ll fuck that’s terrifying.

Passerby6497,

We’ll fuck

Hopefully that doesn’t give you penis cancer

Achsonaja,

🤦 autocorrect got me again. Consent first obviously.

rowrowrowyourboat,

Yeah, but you still have a 99.999…% chance of not getting your dick amputated on any given day as a Brazilian.

It’s still a minuscule chance of getting your dick amputated due to penile cancer. Penile cancer itself is extremely rare. Less than 0.01% chance.

Achsonaja,

Still scares me. Not saying it’s logical, just frightening.

Drusas,

I am curious what a "partial penis amputation" involves.

Frog,

Just the tip.

ArmoredThirteen,

Somehow that sounds worse than taking the whole thing

Frog,

Does foreskin count?

FlyingSquid,
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I’ve had multiple nightmares where it just comes off in my hand. Not the whole thing, “just the tip.”

I don’t think it’s a ‘loss of masculinity’ thing, it’s more about something dreadful very suddenly happening to my body that I can’t undo.

ArmoredThirteen,

So I’m trans and find this pretty interesting. I used to have euphoria dreams where it would come off entirely. Now I’m newly post op and I’m having the occasional nightmares where it’s come back or worse, I start like disentigrating from inside and things fall out of me. Body horror dreams are wild

Socsa,

Smoke more weed and your dreams will stop. Doctors hate this one trick.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Weed does not make my dreams go away.

ArmoredThirteen,

That’s actually one of the reasons I stopped smoking. I normally lucid dream almost every night and wanted that back so I mostly quit weed

fossphi,

Welp, I’m going to bed now. Would be interesting to have an amputation in a dream. Let’s see

werefreeatlast,

But only for a minute.

mysticpickle,

We call that “The Bobbit”

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

A reference that no one under 40 will get.

Frozengyro,

As a 32YO, I get that reference! I think Lorena Bobbit is still pretty well known.

disguy_ovahea,

John Bobbitt somehow turned that into a low-quality porn career.

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

I guess talk show hosts did get about a decade out of that dick joke.

JeffKerman1999,

Could also be the bobbit worm?

ASeriesOfPoorChoices,

for funsies, look up the “bobbit worm”. It’s a marine worm that hunts fish.

then, check out its scientific name. It’s a worthy surprise.

Drusas,

Slightly under forty, definitely get it.

Dkarma,

Cancer Grows at the tip they snip a bit. Grows at the base they take the most of it.

TragicNotCute,
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Just a little off the top

Blumpkinhead,

They take the bottom half.

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