How Soon After Surgery for a Squamous Cell Cancer on the Scalp Should Radiation Be Started?

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Mohs showed clear margins and sentinel node biopsy was negative. Squamous was a spindle cell and wound was closed with a skin graft.

Sonia Badreshia-Bansal, MD · Answer

This is determined on a case-by-case basis, so please stay in touch with your surgeon regarding this timing.  Typical treatments begin somewhere 1-3 months after surgery, but it is highly variable.

Boris Volshteyn, MD, MS · Answer

If radiation treatment is required after skin cancers excision in the same spot, the protocol of administration is usually lighter, also, the skin graft used to close the wound has to be healed. The speed of skin graft healing is inversely proportionate to its thickness. The thin skin grafts usually heal faster then the thicker ones. People Start Treating As Early As 2-3 Weeks, Other His Weight for up to 3 Months.

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