In which patients do you offer adjuvant radiation for porocarcinoma?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology • Melanoma/Skin Cancer

If a patient has undergone wide local excision with residual disease, but negative margins, is it safe to observe? If adjuvant treatment is indicated, to what dose do you usually treat?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Porocarcinoma is a rare entity, and there are very limited data on optimal management. For this, and a small number of other very rare cutaneous carcinomas, I generally apply paradigms used in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Positive margins that cannot be cleared, very deep invasion, desmo...

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Radiation Oncologist at Columbia University Medical Center/ New York Presbyterian / Hudson Valley Hospital
Thanks so much, what dose do you use?

Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Same as SCC

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