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Would you offer post op adjuvant radiation following keloid resection if it would result in a significant dose being delivered to the patient's thyroid gland?

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Radiation Oncology · Michigan Healthcare Professionals, PC

This is less of a "medical" answer than one about patient values. As a specialty, we are remarkably conservative, especially when it comes to benign disease (see our reluctance to treat osteoarthritis, compared to other nations).

Post-op treatment of keloids is essentially an aesthetic choice. We kn...

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