Giant locally advanced and metastatic squamous cell skin carcinoma of head and neck region: case report.
Head
Neck
Radiotherapy
Recurrent tumor
Skin cancer
Journal
Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology
ISSN: 1507-1367
Titre abrégé: Rep Pract Oncol Radiother
Pays: Poland
ID NLM: 100885761
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
11
03
2019
revised:
23
07
2019
accepted:
15
10
2019
entrez:
23
11
2019
pubmed:
23
11
2019
medline:
23
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
At the present time, the skin tumors are among the most common cancers. Optimal therapy is based on the extent of the disease and the age of the patient. The need for radiotherapy occurs for inoperable locally advanced tumors and in the event of failure, salvage surgery is applied. We provided a case report of an older patient with giant squamous cell skin carcinoma and a review of published articles. We present a rare case of giant squamous cell skin carcinoma with metastatic satellite tumors that was primarily treated with curative radiotherapy. Five months after radiotherapy, a recurrent tumor was detected at the site of origin and the treatment was completed by salvage surgery. Full remission was achieved for four years. Despite the seemingly incurable finding it is always necessary to consider radical treatment regardless of the patient´s age. Curative treatment could achieve long term remission in the group of older patients.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31754351
doi: 10.1016/j.rpor.2019.10.009
pii: S1507-1367(19)30093-8
pmc: PMC6854059
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
20-22Informations de copyright
© 2019 Greater Poland Cancer Centre. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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