HYPERCALCEMIA AND CARCINOMA OF THE PENIS

Hypercalcemia is the most common-metabolic disorder associated with ma lignancies. Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis is a tumor for which this abnormality has rarely been described. This report presents a cas e of hypercalcemia seen in a patient with advanced penile cancer. A ch emotherapy regimen of intravenous cisplatin and fluorouracil caused re gression of the primary tumor and normalization of the serum calcium. A literature review supported an association between squamous cell car cinoma of the penis and hypercalcemia. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.