Name: What risk factors relating to history and physical examination would make a patient with SCC a good candidate for the 40-GEP test?
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Description: What risk factors relating to history and physical examination would make a patient with SCC a good candidate for the 40-GEP test?

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Castle SCC September 2023

What risk factors relating to history and physical examination would make a patient with SCC a good candidate for the 40-GEP test?

Skin Cancer

You. Patients present with squamous cell carcinomas on the head and neck, which have higher risk factors. Also, locations on the ears and the lips and the temples and scalps can also have higher risks of metastasis. In addition, large growing tumors, poorly defined borders, and neurologic involvements, such as drooping or or lack of neurologic function from potential nerve involvement with the squamous cell carcinoma would also be factors on history and physical examination that would make a patient a good candidate for the 40 GEP test and.

What risk factors relating to history and physical examination would make a patient with SCC a good candidate for the 40-GEP test?

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