Adjuvant and Primary Radiation Therapy for nonmelanoma cancers

Non melanoma skin cancer ---> treatment of Non melanoma skin cancer ---> Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy may be useful for primary treatment of low-risk non melanoma skin cancers. In experienced hands, primary radiation therapy may also be useful for higher risk tumors with high cure rates. For cutaneous SCC with many high-risk factors and for those with extensive neurotropism, adjuvant prophylactic radiation therapy to the primary site and the primary draining lymph nodes may decrease the risks of local recurrence and regional nodal metastasis. Prophylactic adjuvant radiation therapy should also be considered for highly aggressive, deeply invasive BCCs that exhibit extensive neurotropism.