BCC of the nose treatments Posted: 03-27-08 02:18am
Hello everyone, I'm new here...
My father has been diagnosed with BCC of
the nose a few years back. He is now 73
years old.
He had local surgeries, about 10 times, to
remove local tumors on the surface of the
skin.
Now, according to my understanding, he
suffers from a deeper and bigger tumor.
The dilemma now is to choose the best
treatment.
Surgery:
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If surgery is chosen to handle the
situation, the surgeons might have to use
a back-of-the-ear skin to cover the open
wound, or worse - use a flap from the
forehead to cover it. And after doing some
reading i understand it would leave a
nasty scar an an ugly wound on the nose.
Radiotherapy:
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If radiotherapy is chosen, there are quite
a few risks, not to be taken lightly:
* It might dry the nose for ever, which is
dangerous in my father's asthma.
* It might trigger an extra tumor.
* He won't be able to use radiotherapy on
the nose, ever again.
* The radiotherapist said the radiation
amount needed is about 55 Gray.
* The length of the treatment should be 5
weeks, 5 days each week, so my
father will suffer from exhaustion.
* Cosmetic damage is probable.
* Surgery will get more complicated after
doing radiotherapy.
But the best advantage of the radiotherapy
is:
* It treats the whole nose area, which, as
experience shows, had several
tumors and might have more than one, as
we speak. Surgery will not
promise that no other tumors exist.
My question is:
Has everyone else here been to the same
dilemma?
Anyone who can tell me about the outcomes
of radiotherapy and/or surgery (Moh's or
not), from first or second hand
experience?
Thank you,
Eli.
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Hi! Posted: 04-04-08 04:52am
Have you been told that if he has surgery,
his cancer will require difficult or
extensive one?
Mohs micrografic surgery has the highest
cure rate of all surgical treatments
because the tumor is microscopically
delineated until it is completely removed.
While other treatment methods for
recurrent basal cell carcinoma have
failure rates of about 50%, cure rates
have been reported at 96% when treated by
Mohs micrographic surgery.
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