Metastatic basal cell carcinoma

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Daniel Rappoport W.
Marcelo Veloso O.
Rodrigo Montes F.
Luis Pizarro G.
Fabio Valdés G.

Keywords

Skin cancer, Basal cell Carcinoma, Metastasis

Abstract

 


Basal cell carcinoma is the most frequent neoplasm worldwide. It's a slow growing and locally aggressive tumor, but it has a metastatic potential estimated between 0,0028 and 0,5%. The purpose of this study is to show the experience of a center in the management of this metastatic disease. Descriptive retrospective study of patients with metastatic basal cell carcinoma treated at the Instituto Nacional del cancer from July 2004 to July 2015. A revision of the literature was also made. 3 cases with this unusual disease du- ring an 11-year period. The first one died at 42 months of follow up. There are 2 patients on follow up, 1 of them has lung metastatic disease after 29 months of follow up, and the last one is free of disease with 92 months of follow up. Metastatic basal cell carcinoma is an unusual entity, thus everyone thatis involved in it's treatment, must be aware of this in order to do an early diagnosis. Surgery associated to radiotherapy are the mainstays of treatment. This disease should be managed on national referral centers.

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