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Would you give RT to an ulcerated resected T2 BCC of the perianal margin, with close margins, and no anal canal involvement?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

No, this is a favorable histology with an extremely low nodal metastasis risk and nearly a 100% salvage rate with definitive radiation. Any long term toxicity would be hard to justify and could come with medicolegal vulnerability.

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