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  In 2018, Brazilian pensioner João sought medical help after he found a wart on his penis. “I started visiting medical clinics to find out what it was, but all the doctors told me it was due to excess skin and prescribed medication,” the 63-year-old recalls.   Despite the medication, the wart continued to grow. It started to take a toll on his marriage and João and his wife’s sex life declined. “We were like siblings,” he ad mits. He was determined to find out what was going on.   For five years João, not his real name, 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. “It’s a type of cancer that you can’t talk about with people because it could turn into a j...