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MD, PhD

What clinicopathologic factors have significant prognostic value?

Skin Cancer

You. Factors that we know are associated with a poorer prognosis would include an immunosuppressed patient. So particularly our solid organ transplant patients. A tumor that's greater than 2 cm. Which is why it's important to put that information on tumor diameter on the pathology report. When you do submit your initial specimen to your dermatopathology. Just perineural invasion of a nerve that's 0.1 mm or greater in diameter. Also, poor differentiation, that is an important negative prognostic factor. And then invasion down to the subcutaneous fat as well.