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Lead
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine the success rate of narrow margin excisions of low-risk facial basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine the narrowest excision margin for low-risk facial BCC that gives an acceptable (95%) cure rate over a 3 year follow-up period.
Age
Any age
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Location
1. Area M (cheeks, forehead, scalp \& neck) tumor size \< 10 mm
2. Area H (central face, eyelids, eyebrows, periorbital, nose, lips, chin, mandible, preauricular \& postauricular, temple \& ear) tumor size \< 6 mm
2. Well-defined borders
3. Primary BCC
4. Patient is not immunosuppressed
5. There has not been prior radiotherapy to the site
6. Nodular subtype
7. No perineural involvement-(no neurological deficits grossly) -
You may not be if
1. Location
1. Area M tumor size \> or = to 10 mm
2. Area H tumor size \> or = to 6 mm
2. Poorly defined borders
3. Recurrent BCC
4. Patient is immunosuppressed
5. There has been prior radiotherapy to the site -
