464 / 1609
Treatment of choice
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Surgery and radiotherapy appear to be the
most effective treatments with surgery
showing the lowest failure rates
Bath-Hextall FJ1, et al.
Interventions for basal
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Topical therapies should be reserved for
those patients where surgery or radiation
therapy is contraindicated or impractical
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Only one randomized trial of surgery versus
radiotherapy in basal cell carcinoma of the
cell carcinoma of the
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