CPB Ljubljana 2018 course book

• About half of the

patients will develop a new unrelated primary lesion within

5 years after the initial diagnosis • >80% in the head and neck region • Lesions affect

cosmetically sensitive areas: face, nose (30%), eyelids, ears, scalp, lips

• 90% of lesions are <20mm and a few mm thickness

J. Locke, et al “Radiotherapy for epithelial skin cancer,” Int. J. Radiation Oncology Bio. Phys., vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 748-755, 2001 .

Anatomical distribution Basal cell ca (red) and Squamous cell ca (blue)