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Metastatic penile cancer displays poor chemotherapy response. As no validated prognostic predictor exists, we investigated whether RDW correlates independently with survival outcomes in metastatic penile cancer treated by chemotherapy.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Electronic chemotherapy files of patients with metastatic penile cancer (M1 or N3) from a large academic supra-regional centre were retrospectively analysed between 2005 and 2018. Patients were stratified into RDW\u2009&gt;\u200913.9% and\u2009&lt;\u200913.9%, as per published data on RDW in renal cell carcinoma. Survival time was calculated from the date of chemotherapy initiation until the date of death.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>58 patients were analysed. The RDW-high group (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200931) had a poorer survival than the RDW-low group (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200927). Median overall survival (mOS) in all patients was 19.0\u00a0months (95% CI 13.1\u201324.9). mOS for RDW-high was 15.0\u00a0months (95% CI 10.1\u201319.9) and 37.0\u00a0months (95% CI 32.3\u201343.1) for RDW-low. Kaplan\u2013Meier curves showed a clear disparity in survival (log rank <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.025). Cox proportional hazard ratio for death, corrected for T-stage, grade, age and deprivation score was 0.43 (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.04). Sub-analysis of the M1 patients showed mOS in RDW-high of 17\u00a0m (95% CI 11.6\u201322.4) vs. NR; HR for death of 0.42. N3 patients\u2019 mOS in RDW-high cohort was 30\u00a0months (95% CI 4.5\u201355.9) vs. 13\u00a0months (95% CI 1.8\u201324.2) in RDW-low; HR for death was 0.30.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n<jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>RDW correlates independently with survival outcomes in metastatic penile cancer and may act as a potential predictor of survival outcomes for patients with metastatic penile cancer receiving chemotherapy.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s11255-020-02565-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,23]],"date-time":"2020-07-23T18:04:40Z","timestamp":1595527480000},"page":"2301-2306","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Red cell differential width (RDW) as a predictor of survival outcomes with palliative and adjuvant chemotherapy for metastatic penile cancer"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"52","author":[{"given":"Reena","family":"Patel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Louise","family":"English","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wing K.","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alison C.","family":"Tree","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benjamin","family":"Ayres","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nick","family":"Watkin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lisa M.","family":"Pickering","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mehran","family":"Afshar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2565_CR1","volume-title":"Cancer incidence in five continents","author":"D Forman","year":"2014","unstructured":"Forman D, Bray F, Brewster DH et al (2014) Cancer incidence in five continents, vol X. 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