Similar Local Recurrence and Survival in Patients with T1 Radial Growth Phase Melanoma on Head and Neck Treated with 5 mm or 10 mm Margins. A Retrospective Study.
Andrea MaurichiFrancesco BarrettaRoberto PatuzzoRosalba MiceliGianfranco GallinoIlaria MattavelliAndrea LevaCatherine HarwoodDaniele BergamaschiTiffanie-Marie BorgMichal Shimonovitz-MooreGiuseppe SpadolaElena TolomioConsuelo BarbieriPaola QueiroloAusilia Maria ManganoniGiovanni PellacaniVittoria EspeliCristina MangasSandra Leoni-ParvexMara CossaAlessia BelottiBarbara ValeriUmberto CortinovisMario SantinamiPublished in: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV (2023)
Narrower excision margins for T1 radial growth phase melanoma are not associated with worse overall survival (hazard ratio 0.97, P=0.996) or increased local recurrence (subdistribution hazard ratio: 0.87; P=0.751) compared to wider margins, and may be safely applied to such lesions, although caution may be required in the presence of lentigo maligna melanoma.