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Penis Cancer Learning Center
Prevention could include:
- Circumcision
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Maintain Good Personal Hygiene
- Practice Safe Sex
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Circumcision may decrease the risk. Men who are not circumcised should be taught at an early age the importance of cleaning beneath the foreskin as part of their personal hygiene.
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Conditions which increase a person's chance of getting penile cancer include: infection with genital warts ( human papillomavirus , or HPV) a skin disease called psoriasis a condition called phimosis, in which the foreskin becomes difficult to ret...
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Conditions which increase a person's chance of getting penile cancer include: infection with genital warts (human papillomavirus, or HPV) a skin disease called psoriasis a condition called phimosis, in which the foreskin becomes difficult to retra...
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Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis.
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The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis, or prepuce of the clitoris.
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The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis in a male or the prepuce of a clitoris in a female. A typical circumcision procedure involves the following steps: Figure A: The surgeon makes an incision around the foreskin. Figure B: The foreski...
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The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis or prepuce.
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The surgical removal of the foreskin that covers the end, or glans, of the penis. Until the early 1970s, male infants born in the United States were routinely circumcised. In fact, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that abou...
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Safe sex means taking precautions during sex that can keep you from getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), or from giving an STD to your partner. These diseases include genital herpes, genital warts, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hep...
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