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Cancer of the anus
Author(s) -
Spratt John S.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/1096-9098(200006)74:2<173::aid-jso19>3.0.co;2-1
Subject(s) - medicine , anus , groin , abdominoperineal resection , dissection (medical) , wide local excision , surgery , melanoma , biopsy , basal cell , cancer , radiology , colorectal cancer , pathology , cancer research
Cancers of the anus, whether keratinizing squamous, nonkeratinizing, clear‐cell, or melanoma, are infrequent neoplasms. Small keratinizing (<4 cm 2 ) with no deep invasion can be controlled by local excision or laser ablation, but larger ones may be treated by chemoirradiation, restricting abdominoperineal resection to recurrences. Neither melanomas nor clear‐cell cancers are curable, and local control is the surgical objective. Prophylactic groin dissection is not required but, for enlarged nodes or in the presence of a positive sentinel node biopsy, may be curative in many cases and palliative in all. J. Surg. Oncol. 2000;74:173–174. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.