Long Term Prospective Study Evaluating Effectiveness of Narrow Margins for Low-Risk Head and Neck Basal Cell Carcinomas

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Basal Cell Carcinoma

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine the narrowest excision margin for head and neck Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) tumors satisfying the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN) low-risk for recurrence clinical and histopathological criteria that gives an acceptable (95%) clinical cure-rate over a 3 year follow-up period. Margins of 1 and 2mm are evaluated.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01903239

Run by

Thomas Jefferson University

People needed

179

Starts

2011-11-01

Expected to finish

2017-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-02-05

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient has a BCC <10mm on their cheeks, forehead, scalp \& neck or <6mm on their central face, eyelids, eyebrows, periorbital, nose, lips, chin, mandible, preauricular \& postauricular, temple \& ear
• The BCC has well defined borders
• The BCC is primary
• The Patient is not immunosuppressed
• The BCC is not located at a site of prior radiation therapy
• The histologic subtype is nodular or superficial
• There is no perineural involvement

You may not qualify if…

• Patient has a BCC >or=10mm on their cheeks, forehead, scalp \& neck or >or=6mm on their central face, eyelids, eyebrows, periorbital, nose, lips, chin, mandible, preauricular \& postauricular, temple \& ear
• The BCC has poorly defined borders
• The BCC is recurrent
• The Patient is immunosuppressed
• The BCC is located at a site of prior radiation therapy
• The histologic subtype is aggressive
• There is perineural involvement

Where it is running

• Advanced Aesthetics — Bensalem, Pennsylvania, United States
• Jefferson Dermatology Associates — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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