% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Moen:285371, author = {C. A. Moen and T. E. Falkenthal and T. K. Thorkelsen and A. Hopland and O. E. Rio and A. Honoré and P. Juliebø-Jones and H. N. Dongre and D. E. Costea and L. Bostad and P. Brennan and M. Johansson and A. Ferreiro-Iglesias and N. Brenner$^*$ and T. Waterboer$^*$ and M. Nygård and C. Beisland}, title = {{P}enile {C}ancers {A}ttributed to {H}uman {P}apillomavirus {A}re {A}ssociated with {I}mproved {S}urvival for {N}ode-positive {P}atients. {F}indings from a {N}orwegian {C}ohort {S}tudy {S}panning 50 {Y}ears.}, journal = {European urology oncology}, volume = {7}, number = {4}, issn = {2588-9311}, address = {Amsterdam}, publisher = {Elsevier}, reportid = {DKFZ-2023-02340}, pages = {778-785}, year = {2024}, note = {2024 Aug;7(4):778-785}, abstract = {Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a risk factor for the development of penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC). It remains inconclusive whether HPV-related PSCC has a different prognosis from non-HPV-related PSCC.To investigate the relationship between HPV status and survival as well as temporal changes in the proportion of HPV-related PSCC.A retrospective cohort of 277 patients treated in Norway between 1973 and 2022 was investigated for HPV DNA in tumor tissue. Clinicopathological variables and disease course were registered.Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression were used to investigate the determinants of cancer-specific survival (CSS). The chi-square test for trend in proportions enabled investigation of temporal changes in the HPV-related proportion of PSCC patients treated in Western Norway (n = 211).HPV DNA was detected in tumor tissue from 131 $(47\%)$ patients. Stratified by HPV status, 5-yr CSS did not differ between groups (p = 0.37). When investigating only node-positive patients, however, presence of HPV DNA was an independent predictor of better survival in multivariable Cox regression after adjustment for age, nodal stage, and adjuvant therapy (hazard ratio 0.54, $95\%$ confidence interval: [0.30-0.99], p = 0.04). In cases from Western Norway, an increasing proportion of HPV-related cases over time was found (p = 0.01). The main limitation is the retrospective study design.HPV DNA in tumor tissue was associated with significantly better CSS for node-positive patients. The proportion of HPV DNA-positive PSCC has increased significantly in Western Norway over the past 50 yr.We investigated the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) on the survival of penile cancer patients treated over a 50-yr period in Norway. We found that for patients with lymph node metastasis, survival was better for HPV-related cases. We also found that the proportion of cases due to HPV has increased in Western Norway.}, keywords = {Cancer-specific survival (Other) / Human papillomavirus (Other) / Net survival (Other) / Penile cancer (Other) / Penile squamous cell carcinoma (Other)}, cin = {F020}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)F020-20160331}, pnm = {316 - Infektionen, Entzündung und Krebs (POF4-316)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-316}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:37949729}, doi = {10.1016/j.euo.2023.10.013}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/285371}, }