Table 1.

Patient characteristics and patterns of care of penile cancer surgery and LND in Germany (2006–2016)

	Penile surgery	LND
Total number of cases	11,353	5173
Age, years [mean ± SD]	67.3 ± 12.5	64.5 ± 11.4
Annual hospital caseload
< 4	4446 (39.2)	2818 (54.5)
4–9	5428 (47.8)	1991 (38.5)
> 9	1479 (13.0)	364 (7.0)
Teaching status
Academic	3110 (27.4)	3525 (68.1)
Size of hospital, no. of beds
< 300	2194 (19.3)	870 (16.8)
301–800	4820 (42.5)	2037 (39.4)
> 800	4339 (38.2)	2266 (43.8)
Surrounding city size, no. of inhabitants
< 20,000	1708 (15.0)	714 (13.8)
20,001–100,000	3835 (33.8)	1721 (33.3)
100,001–500,000	3373 (29.7)	1632 (31.5)
> 500,000	2437 (21.5)	1106 (21.4)

Data are expressed as n (%) unless otherwise specified

LND lymph node dissection, SD standard deviation