Dermatoscopy Guided Resection for Skin Cancer

Region Örebro County

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Surgical Margin; Basal Cell Carcinoma

Treatments: Device: Dermatoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06342297

OLL-1003043

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this randomizid controlled trial the aim is to use dermatoscopy in deciding the resection margin for patients with suspected or verified basal cell carcinoma or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. The outcome is radical/non radical resection of the lateral margins in the pathology report.

Full description

In basal cell carcinoma and especially cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma the prognosis is very good if the tumour is radically removed in the primary resection. In this study we propose that the use of dermatoscopy in deciding the surgical margins can increase the proportion of radically removed tumours. In this randomized clinical trial the use of dermatoscopy in deciding the surgical margins in patients with suspected or verified basal cell carcinoma or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is assessed. The outcome measure is radical/non radical resection of the lateral margins. In the control group dematoscopy is not used in deciding the surgical margin. 400 patients with suspected or verified BCC or cSCC will be included, 200 in each group.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with primary suspected or verified basal cell carcinoma or cutaneous cell carcinoma

Exclusion criteria

• Recurrent tumours
• Previous radiotherapy of the tumour area
• If the patient cannot understand the study i nformation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

No dermatoscopy

No Intervention group

Description:

Dermatoscopy not used in decision of surgical margin

Dermatoscopy

Experimental group

Description:

Dermatoscopy is used in decision of surgical margin

Treatment:

Device: Dermatoscopy