Follow-up in advanced basal-cell carcinoma

Skin malignancies usually take the form of basal cell car­ci­no­ma, squamous cell carcinoma and malignant me­la­no­ma. The head and neck malignant tumor pa­tho­logy can be addressed by multiple medical specialists: maxil­lo­fa­cial surgeons, dermatologists and plastic sur­geons. Although considered a less aggressive type of malignancy, the basal-cell carcinoma can extend to pro­found regions and require extensive surgery and im­mediate reconstructions of the defect area with regional or distant flaps. The treatment does not end with the sur­gi­cal phase, the follow-up being as equally important, as there is a 50% higher risk for developing a second skin malig­nan­cy in the next 5-10 years postoperatively.