Table 1

Overview on clinical reports

Authors
N° of cases
Treatment Options
Outcome

1. Radical surgery reports

Baker et al and Arnheim [25,26]
4
Orchiectomy/TURP/RP
Survival times: 1 to 3 mo.
Thompson et al [10]
7
TURP/Orchiectomy/ES
Survival times: 3 mo.-6 yrs range



5/7 pts survived less than 1 year
Sieracki [8]
3
RP/RT/ES
Survival times: 8 days-9 yrs range
Gray et al [18]
1
RP/Miles
Died 1 year after diagnosis
Corder et al [23]
1
TURP/RP/RT/Adriamycin
5 mo. response to CT
Samsonov [31]
3
RP
NA
Al Adnani [32]
2
RP
Not reported
Asuero et al [33]
1
RP
Alive 1 year after treatment
Sarma et al [35]
1
RCP/TP/SC/PS/Miles
Died 6 mo. after diagnosis of d-MTS
Masuda et al [19]
1
RP
Disease-free 6 yrs after surgery
Moskovitz et al [6]
1
RP
Died 5 mo. after diagnosis
Little et al [17]
2
RCP/PLND/TURP
Disease-free 40 mo. after surgery


RCP/PLND
Lung MTS 25 mo. after diagnosis
Braslis et al [15]
1
RCP
Disease-free 6 mo. after surgery
Okamoto et al [7]
1
RP/PLND/MPD
Died 14 mo. after surgery
Imamura et al [22]
1
RCP/MPD
Disease-free 5 yrs after surgery
Kanthan et al [45]
6
RP/RT/CT
Survival rates from 1 to 13 mo.

2. Radio-chemotherapy combined modality treatment reports

Inaba et al [49]
1
TURP/CDDP/RT
Died 13 months after diagnosis
Kuwahara et al [36]
1
TURP/CDDP/PEP/RT
Died 9 mo. after diagnosis
Uchibayashi et al [20]
1
TURP/Local RT/CDDP/BLM
Disease-free 21 mo. after diagnosis
Okada et al [21]
1
Local RT/CDDP/PEP
Disease-free 18 mo. after diagnosis
Present case
1
RT/CDDP/5-FU
5 yrs disease-free survival

3. Miscellaneous

Ray et al [27]
1
RT
Not reported
Kastendieck et al [28]
1
TURP/Orchiectomy/ES
Died 2 months after diagnosis
Mott [4]
2
TURP/RT
Died 8 mo. after diagnosis


Orchiectomy/RT/DES
Died 5 months after diagnosis
Sharma et al [29]
1
Orchiectomy
Died during diagnostic procedures
Miller et al [16]
1
CDDP/5-FU/Tax
SD for 6 months
Perez Garcia et al [37]
1
RT
Alive 5 mo. after treatment
Nabi et al [41]
2
TURP/Adriamycin
Died 5 mo. after diagnosis
Goto et al [42]
1
MTX/Pirarubicin/CDDP/TPE
Disease-free 12 mo. after therapy
Mayayo et al [44]
1
Local RT
Died 7 mo. after diagnosis
John et al [47]
1
TURP/RT
Died 24 mo. after diagnosis
Di Pietro et al [48]
1
TURP
Died during diagnostic work-up

4. Anecdotal reports

Spagnol [24]
1
None
Died 2 days after diagnosis
Kahaler [9]
6
Not reported
Not reported
Okamura et al [30]
1
NA
NA
Wernert et al [34]
1
Not reported
Not reported
Ulloa et al [38]
1
NA
NA
Rahmanou et al [39]
1
Not reported
Not reported
Puyol et al [40]
1
None
Local PD 6 mo. after diagnosis
Herrera et al [43]
1
None
Died 2 mo. after diagnosis
Mohan et al [5]
1
None
Discontinued follow-up
Parwani et al [46]
8
Not reported
Survival times: 5–48 mo.

Only pure squamous cell carcinoma of the prostate gland have been included. TURP: transurethral resection of prostate; RP: radical prostatectomy; RT: radiotherapy; CT: chemotherapy; NA: not available (mainly due to articles written in languages others than English); ES: estrogen; DES: diethylstilbesterol; mo.: months; yrs: years; RCP: radical cystoprostatectomy; TP: total penectomy; SC: scrotectomy; PS: pubic symphysectomy; Miles: abdominoperineal resection of the rectum; d-MTS: distant metastases; CDDP: cisplatin; PEP: peplomycin; PLND: pelvic lymphadenectomy; 5-FU: 5-fluorouracil; Tax: paclitaxel; MPD: methotrexate-peplomycin-cisplatin; BLM: bleomycin; MTX: methotrexate; TPE: total pelvic exenteration.

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