{"id":68893,"date":"2023-11-02T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/?p=68893"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:52:52","slug":"man-has-penis-amputated-after-week-long-erection-turns-out-to-be-a-rare-sign-of-cancer-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/lifestyle\/man-has-penis-amputated-after-week-long-erection-turns-out-to-be-a-rare-sign-of-cancer-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Man has penis amputated after week-long erection turns out to be a rare sign of cancer | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 63-year-old man was forced to have his entire penis amputated after enduring a week-long erection.<\/p>\n

The unnamed patient told doctors in Indonesia his painful erection began randomly and wasn't due to any sexual stimulation.<\/p>\n

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Any erection that lasts longer than four hours is deemed a medical emergency. The condition is known as priapism.<\/p>\n

A fortnight earlier, the man had visited the hospital with pain just below his ribs and unexplained weight loss.<\/p>\n

Tests revealed that he was suffering from a form of kidney cancer, known as high-grade\u00a0renal carcinoma, the medics wrote in Urology Case Reports.<\/p>\n

It happens when abnormal cells start to divide and grow uncontrolled.<\/p>\n

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If it's\u00a0found early, kidney cancer can often be cured, but this may not be possible if it's diagnosed after it has spread beyond the kidneys.<\/p>\n

Surgeons at Prof. Dr. I.G.N.G Ngoerah General Hospital, Bali, Indonesia, first tried to drain blood from the penis in an attempt to ease the erection – which didn't work.<\/p>\n

The doctors then put in a shunt\u00a0to help with blood flow in the penis. <\/p>\n

After some further scans, the doctors discovered the cancer had spread into his penis, and decided to amputate it to halt the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

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After the surgery, the patient was treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

Three months after the surgery, the doctors described the man as having "no abnormalities in urination and no significant complaints".<\/p>\n

Around 13,300 kidney cancers are diagnosed in the UK each year, CRUK says.<\/p>\n

There are about 4,700 deaths annually – or 13 every day.<\/p>\n

It is the seventh most common cancer in the UK.<\/p>\n

How it is treated depends on what type of kidney cancer you have, where it is and how big it is, if it has spread, and your general health.<\/p>\n

Surgery, cryotherapy, radiofrequency ablation, targeted medicines, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are all options.<\/p>\n

The dangers of priapism\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

An erection that lasts any longer than four hours, medically known as priapism, is deemed a medical emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In such cases, erections don't subside after ejaculation and aren't always triggered by sexual stimulation, the\u00a0NHS\u00a0states.<\/p>\n

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The painful condition, considered rare, can be triggered by anything that disrupts the flow of blood out of the penis – as well as some forms of cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Doctors usually recommend the gruesome tactic of using a needle and syringe to drain blood out of the penis for patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Kidney cancer, also called renal cancer, is one of the most common in the UK.<\/p>\n

Generally it affects people in their 60s or 70s, and is quite rare in the under-50s.<\/p>\n

Symptoms include:<\/p>\n