Brazil is seeing a rise in penile cancer, with 6,500 penises removed.

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 João, a retired Brazilian, went to the doctor in 2018 after discovering a wart on his penis.


The 63-year-old says, "I started going to medical clinics to find out what it was, and all the doctors told me it was due to excess skin and prescribed medication."

The treatment didn't stop the wart from growing. João and his wife's sexual life decreased, and it began to negatively impact their marriage. He says, "We were like siblings." He was going to find out, he was determined to.


For five years, João went back and forth to specialists who prescribed more medication and ordered new biopsies. “Nothing solved it,” he says. Then, in 2023, he was given a diagnosis – João had penile cancer. “For my family, it was a very unpleasant surprise, even more so because I had to have part of the penis amputated. I feel like I was decapitated,” he says.

"You can't discuss this type of cancer with people because it could be taken as a joke."

Although penile cancer is uncommon, worldwide prevalence and fatality rates are rising.

João is from Brazil, which has one of the highest incidence rates (2.1 per 100,000 men), according to the most recent studies.
21,000 instances were documented between 2012 and 2022, according to Brazil's Ministry of Health. As a result, there have been over 6,500 amputations during the last ten years, or two a day on average, and more than 4,000 deaths.

At 6.1 per 100,000 men, Maranhão, the poorest state in Brazil, was reported to have the highest incidence rate worldwide.


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