Received 9 March 2009; received in revised form 15 July 2009; accepted 16 July 2009. published online 23 October 2009.
Abstract
Purpose
We present a patient with recurrent basal cell carcinoma (BCCA) who was treated with custom-made mold brachytherapy.
Methods and Materials
The patient was admitted to the hospital with the complaint of recurrent BCCA of the auditory canal. He has previously treated by surgery and external beam radiotherapy. We decided to continue with reirradiation to tumor bed after surgical excision. A total of 25Gy to 5mm depth of surgical bed was delivered by mold brachytherapy.
Results
The patient did well during the treatment without any acute toxicity. He was lost to followup after 2 years of treatment without any obvious late morbidity.
Conclusion
Custom-made mold brachytherapy is an alternative treatment modality, for reirradiation of selected group of patients, with minimal morbidity and good disease control.
1Department of Prosthodontics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Radiation Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Corresponding author. Hacettepe University, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Prosthodontics, Sihhiye, Ankara, 06100, Turkey. Tel.: +90-312-305-2240; fax: +90-312-311-3741.
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