Recent Australian Advances in the Radiotherapy of Skin Cancer

Abstract

This paper is an expository report on some recent and current research on clinical problems in the control of skin cancer in Australia, which has a high prevalence and an increasing incidence of this disease.

Keywords

• Skin cancer
• Therapeutic ratio
• Melanoma
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
• Positron emission tomography
• Axillary fields
• Lymphadenectomy
• Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome