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ArticleCureus2026

Squamous Eccrine Ductal Carcinoma Treated With Adjuvant Radiation Therapy.

Ashley N Austin, Daniel A Jones, William McAfee

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Article in Cureus, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ashley N AustinRadiation Oncology, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Moultrie, USA.
Daniel A JonesRadiation Oncology, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, USA.
William McAfeeRadiation Oncology, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Squamous eccrine ductal carcinoma (SEDC) is a rare skin cancer with limited academia or documented definitive and/or adjuvant therapeutic options. Retrospective studies report aggressive course, high risk of local recurrence, and/or distant metastasis. Histopathology describes it to possess both squamous and ductal differentiation, causing diagnostic obscurity and misdiagnosis, begetting underdiagnosis, mottling the prognostic course. If perineural or lymphovascular invasion (LVI) is noted, increased risk of local recurrence is evident. With recurrence risk rates in mind, a physician could infer that wide local excision (WLE) with negative margins or Mohs microscopic surgery (MMS) may not be enough for a cure. After WLE, the role of adjuvant radiotherapy is unclear. In our patient, adjuvant radiotherapy was offered to maximize local control.

Indexed as

adjuvant radiotherapyclose marginsductal differentiationhigh-risk recurrencelocal recurrencelymphovascular invasionmetastasisperineural invasionsquamous eccrine ductal carcinoma

Identifiers

PMID42604257
PMCPMC13477416

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