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Castle SCC November 2023

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.

What clinicopathologic factors have significant prognostic value?

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