Do you have a tolerance dose for a skin graft when treating a high-risk skin cancer?
How long would you typically wait between date of surgery and initiation of radiation therapy? What factors influence this decision?
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Radiation Oncology · The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
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Surprisingly, skin grafts are extremely tolerant of radiation therapy. This is probably due to the low oxygenation saturation. I generally treat across the skin graft, considering it nothing more than normal tissue when I am attempting to either prophylactically or specifically treat cancer in and around the area of the graft. Whether it is a split thickness graft or a full pedicle craft seems to make little difference. Grafts are generally as tolerant of radiation, and even perhaps more so than...
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