“RT Strikes Back”: Radiotherapy in Ultra Elderly With Cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinoma

Citation: Nardone V, Gagliardi F, Brancaccio G, Napolitano S, Briatico G, Reginelli A. “RT STRIKES BACK”: Radiotherapy in Ultra Elderly with Cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinoma. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2023;13(2):e2023110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5826/dpc.1302a110

Accepted: October 17, 2023; Published: April 2023

Copyright: ©2023 Nardone et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (BY-NC-4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

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Competing interests: None.

Authorship: All authors have contributed significantly to this publication.

Corresponding author: Valerio Nardone, Department of Precision Medicine, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Naples, Via De Crecchio 7, 80138 Naples, Italy; Email: Valerio.nardone@unicampania.it

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Keywords : skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, elderly patients, radiotherapy

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