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When would you offer post-operative therapy to a resected non-melanomatous skin cancer with a solitary positive node?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

I treat them all. If they are fit enough for surgery, their prognosis is good enough to treat.

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

If the lymph node is smaller than 3 cm, then there might be a case to forgo adjuvant lymph node basin radiotherapy based on this study:

Ebrahimi et al., PMID 21472887

However, one would want to confirm that an adequate lymphadenectomy and pathologic review of the specimen was performed. Also, consider...

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Radiation Oncology · The Oregon Clinic-Radiation Oncology West

The ASTRO skin carcinoma guideline (Likhacheva et al., PMID 31831330) recommends postoperative radiotherapy for clinically node-positive patients with the exception of single <3 cm cervical node without ECE (Table 4, #1; strong recommendation; moderate quality of evidence).

I would treat for a 4 cm n...

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