Penis Disorders – Benign Tumors

Also called: Benign cancer, Benign neoplasms, Noncancerous tumors

Tumors are abnormal growths in your body. They can be either benign or malignant. Benign tumors aren’t cancer. Malignant ones are. Benign tumors grow only in one place. They cannot spread or invade other parts of your body. Even so, they can be dangerous if they press on vital organs, such as your brain.

Tumors are made up of extra cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to form new cells as your body needs them. When cells grow old, they die, and new cells take their place. Sometimes, this process goes wrong. New cells form when your body does not need them, and old cells do not die when they should. These extra cells can divide without stopping and may form tumor.

Treatment often involves surgery. Benign tumors usually don’t grow back.

NIH: National Cancer Institute

• Biopsy – polyps (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Cherry angioma (Medical Encyclopedia)

Also called: Penile disorders

Problems with the penis can cause pain and affect a man’s sexual function and fertility. Penis disorders include

• Erectile dysfunction – inability to get or keep an erection
• Priapism – a painful erection that does not go away
• Peyronie’s disease – bending of the penis during an erection due to a hard lump called a plaque
• Balanitis – inflammation of the skin covering the head of the penis, most often in men and boys who have not been circumcised
• Penile cancer – a rare form of cancer, highly curable when caught early

• Balanitis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Cancer – penis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Curvature of the penis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Epididymitis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Epispadias (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Erythroplasia of Queyrat (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Hypospadias (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Hypospadias repair (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Hypospadias repair – discharge (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Paraphimosis (Medical Encyclopedia)
• Penis pain (Medical Encyclopedia)