title: Treatment of basal cell carcinoma of the eyelid.
abstract: 109 cases treated for basal cell carcinoma of the lid are presented. Of the 79 patients who received radiation treatment alone, 65 (82%) were recurrence-free at two years and of the 45 followed for five years, 31 (69%) were recurrence-free. Of the 30 cases radically excised, 27 (90%) were cured at two years, and all of the 15 who were followed for five years. Small tumours were cured as effectively with irradiation (98%) as with excision (92%). Larger tumours with a diameter of more than one cm seemed to have a less favourable result with radiotherapy, 20/33 for two years and 9/21 for five years, than with excision, 6/7 and 5/5, respectively.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D005142:Eyelid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011379:Prognosis