BACKGROUND: Management of advanced @entity5 has been controversial. We have evaluated and treated 10 @entity1 with @entity272 more than 8 cm in diameter. METHODS: Aggressive surgical ablation was prospectively recommended to treat giant basal cell or mixed @entity5 and two purely squamous cell @entity5 . Radiation therapy was given in three surgical @entity1 . Our data are analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: Survival of the two @entity1 who refused surgery was measured in weeks. One @entity1 who refused adequate surgery survived 9 months before dying. All of the adequately treated surgical @entity1 are alive as of this writing, including one who had subsequent resection of pulmonary metastases. Three @entity1 required free tissue transfer. The average survival of surgically treated @entity1 was 2.7 years. CONCLUSION: An aggressive surgical approach to the management of advanced/giant skin @entity5 is justifiable and the only treatment that may produce long-term survivability.

Surgical management of giant nonmelanoma skin XXXX .

@entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['basosquamous tumors', 'neoplasia', 'integumentary malignancy', 'tumors'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient'] @entity272 :: ('MESH:D012871', 'Disease') :: ['giant nonmelanoma skin neoplasias']
@entity5 :: (MESH:D009369,Disease) :: ['neoplasia']
