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Malignant disease involving the skin represents a significant work load to the general radiotherapist and can involve interesting diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Primary skin cancer is also relatively common and there is a need to provide an efficient service in which the first treatment is successful in the majority of patients. The reward for careful attention to technique is very considerable both in terms of clinical cancer control and functional results. Squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and intra-epidermal carcinoma constitute the majority of the lesions dealt with clinically, but metastatic disease, lymphomas, and malignant melanomas are also referred regularly for opinions and may require radiotherapy. Lym-phomatous involvement of the skin is dealt with in Chap. 14.
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Hunter, R.D. (1985). Skin. In: Easson, E.C., Pointon, R.C.S. (eds) The Radiotherapy of Malignant Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3322-3_6
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