CASE REPORT article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Genitourinary Oncology
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1649636
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Therapeutic Approaches for Complex Cancers: Exploring New StrategiesView all 14 articles
Primary High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma of the Prostate Combined with Acinar Adenocarcinoma: First Rare Case Report and Treatment Experience Summary
Provisionally accepted- 1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- 2Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China
- 3Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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Introduction: Primary high-grade urothelial carcinoma of the prostate (PHUCP) combined with acinar adenocarcinoma is an extremely rare malignancy, with no previously reported cases worldwide. Primary urothelial carcinoma of the prostate (PUCP) accounts for only 1%-4% of all prostate malignancies, and its clinical manifestations often overlap with common prostatic diseases such as benign prostatic 2 / 17 hyperplasia (BPH), leading to frequent misdiagnosis. This study presents the first documented case and summarizes the diagnostic and therapeutic approach.Case Presentation: A 61-year-old male patient presented with lower urinary tract symptoms and was initially diagnosed with BPH, later revised to Gleason score 10 prostate adenocarcinoma at external hospitals. Following an innovative port-free single-site robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (pf-ssRARP) at our institution, immunohistochemical analysis (CK7/CK20/GATA3 positive, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) negative) confirmed the diagnosis of PHUCP combined with acinar adenocarcinoma. Postoperatively, a surgery combined with targeted and immunotherapy regimen was initiated: leuprorelin + rezvilutamide for the acinar adenocarcinoma and disitamab vedotin + toripalimab for the urothelial carcinoma. No recurrence or metastasis was observed during the 1-year follow-up period.This case underscores the diagnostic challenges of prostatic urothelial carcinoma and highlights the importance of immunohistochemistry in cases with normal PSA but rapid progression. The protocol of surgery combined with targeted and immunotherapy offers a new treatment strategy for this rare malignancy. This study provides valuable insights for clinical diagnosis and management.
Keywords: prostate cancer, urothelial carcinoma, Acinar adenocarcinoma, Immunohistochemistry, robotic surgery, combined therapy
Received: 18 Jun 2025; Accepted: 10 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Nie, Liu, Gu, Wang, Zhang, Zhou, Wang and Ren. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Dong Wang, wangdong19690530@163.com
Shangqing Ren, rsq0516@163.com
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