Xing, Daniel, Hettige, Supan, Yan Shan Chee, Lessandra, Nair, Rohan, and Hegde, Rajendra (2021) Curative Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Scalp Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cureus, 13 (10). e18514.

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Abstract

A 73-year-old man presented to his primary physician with an ulcerative growth on his scalp vertex. Biopsy of the lesion confirmed the growth to be a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, but the patient declined medical intervention. The lesion increased in size over six months, measuring 12 cm in diameter and 3 cm thickness with erosion of the skull of the vertex. CT and MRI scans showed a large fungating mass with erosion of the skull of vertex without intra-cranial extension, meningeal enhancement, or distant metastatic disease. The patient declined surgical intervention. The patient received radiotherapy using volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) to a total dose of 60 Gy over six weeks. No evidence of clinical invasive disease apart from a 15 cm * 12 cm skin defect detected three months after completion of radiotherapy. At three years of follow-up, the patient is clinically disease-free. This case report provides evidence that high-dose radiotherapy is a potential effective definitive treatment for locally advanced (T4) squamous cell carcinoma for patients who are unwilling to undergo surgery.

Item ID:	82133
Item Type:	Article (Case Study)
ISSN:	2168-8184
Copyright Information:	© Copyright 2021 Xing et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Date Deposited:	02 Apr 2024 01:01
FoR Codes:	32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis > 321104 Cancer therapy (excl. chemotherapy and radiation therapy) @ 100%
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