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How would you approach treatment of a patient with asymptomatic, oligometastatic basal cell carcinoma?

Is there a role for radiation? Does your approach differ depending on site(s) of disease, and/or if the patient has Basal-Cell Nevus (Gorlin) syndrome?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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This is an unusual situation. I would want to clarify whether this is regional versus distant metastasis, and what is meant by "oligometastatic". I would also want the diagnosis of metastatic basal cell carcinoma confirmed histopathologically (and possibly even molecularly) for both a putative prima...

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