Research Article
Concomitant Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for High-Risk Nonmelanoma Skin Carcinomas of the Head and Neck
Table 1
Patient and primary tumor characteristics.
| | No. (%) | | CRT | RT |
| Total number | 15 | 30 |
| Mean age (yrs) | 65 (range, 47–84) | 66 (range, 48–89) |
| Gender | | | Male | 14 | 26 | Female | 1 | 4 |
| Histology | | | Squamous cell | 11 | 19 | Basal cell | 4 | 11 |
| Location | | | Cheek | 3 | 2 | Ear | 2 | 5 | Eye | 1 | 4 | Forehead | 2 | 4 | Neck | 1 | 3 | Nose | 2 | 1 | Preauricular | 2 | 7 | Scalp | 2 | 4 |
| T stage | | | T1 | 0 | 1 | T2 | 0 | 4 | T3 | 1 | 2 | T4 | 14 | 14 | Tx | 0 | 9 |
| N stage | | | N0 | 9 | 22 | N1 | 6 | 8 |
| Presentation | | | Primary | 8 | 11 | Recurrent | 7 | 19 |
| Primary treatment | | | Definitive | 10 | 10 | Postoperative | 5 | 20 |
| Tumor features | | | Unresectable | 9 (60) | 7 (23) | Bone invasion | 8 (53) | 6 (20) | Nerve invasion | 3 (20) | 8 (27) | Soft tissue invasion | 7 (47) | 8 (27) | Positive margins | 2 (40)* | 9 (45)* | ECE | 2 (13) | 2 (7) | Multiple recurrence | 3 (20) | 1 (3) | High grade† | 9 (90)†† | 8 (62)†† |
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*Postoperative patients, †moderately to poorly differentiated, ††available tumor grade. CRT, chemoradiotherapy; RT, radiotherapy alone; ECE, extracapsular extension.
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