Skin Cancer and Reconstructive Surgery Center is Orange County’s premier skin cancer center, offering patients, physicians, and the community a credible resource for understanding, preventing, and managing skin cancer.

Keratoacanthoma Right Lateral Canthus

By Simon Madorsky, MD

In our case report, an 86 y.o. woman underwent excision of a right lateral canthus keratoacanthoma with Mohs surgery. The lesion recurred 2 months later spreading into the orbit and deep along the surface of the maxilla. She required a partial maxillectomy and orbital exenteration with post-operative radiation therapy. Forehead fasciocutaneous flap was used for…

By Simon Madorsky, MD

As acceptance of radiation therapy for skin cancer grows, questions arise as to the long-term risks therapeutic radiation poses. This is an area extensively measured and studied by radiation physicists and medical dosimetrists. However, from practical point of view, most of empirical data comes form epidemiological population studies. The most dramatic of these being atomic…

Atypical Nevus – Chasing Excision Margins

By Simon Madorsky, MD

A 12 year old with a 10 x 7 mm pigmented nevus present since infancy undergoes excisional biopsy of the nevus for cosmetic and diagnostic purposes. Pathology evaluation finds this to be a compound nevus with moderate atypia and partial margin involvement. Pathologist recommends re-excision with 2 mm margins. Do we chase the margins as…

Superficial Radiotherapy – An Alternative Treatment of Superficial Carcinomas

By Simon Madorsky, MD

First successful treatment of skin cancer with fractionated radiation therapy was reported by Steinbeck and Sjogren in Sweden in 1899. Since then, superficial radiation and low energy Grenz X-rays have been utilized in office settings by radiation oncologists and dermatologists for the same purposes. In the United States, the practice continued through the 1970’s and…

Scalp Radiation for High Risk Skin Cancer – The Perils and the Perfect Storm

By Simon Madorsky, MD

At the last SCARS Tumor Conference, we presented a 66 year old “Perfect Storm” patient with scalp lesions. He exhibited three critical characteristics: 1. extensive scarring by multiple dermatologic procedures required for the many skin cancers of his scalp – field cancerization effect 2. tissue hypoperfusion (smoker, peripheral vascular disease) 3. medical co-morbidities (CAD, advanced…

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Vismodegib – A Breakthrough in Basal Cell Carcinoma Treatment

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Vismodegib, a Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor, has been recently shown to be highly effective for advanced basal cell carcinoma in Phase II clinical studies. Discovery of the Hedgehog Signaling Pathway is enlightening in how three unrelated basic science research paths can meet at crossroads of cancer treatment breakthrough. First, there were sheep in Idaho in 1957…

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Skin Cancer Management, Reconstructive Challenges, Dermatopathology

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Meeting Agenda:
Skin Cancer Management, Reconstructive Challenges, Dermatopathology

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Keratoacanthoma Right Lateral Canthus

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Radiation Carcinogenesis

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Atypical Nevus – Chasing Excision Margins

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Superficial Radiotherapy – An Alternative Treatment of Superficial Carcinomas

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Scalp Radiation for High Risk Skin Cancer – The Perils and the Perfect Storm

By Simon Madorsky, MD

Vismodegib – A Breakthrough in Basal Cell Carcinoma Treatment

By Simon Madorsky, MD

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