# OnCo record radiotherapy-for-skin-cancer (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy-for-skin-cancer/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "radiotherapy-for-skin-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Radiotherapy for skin cancer"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "radiotherapy for basal cell carcinoma"@en, "skin brachytherapy"@en, "superficial radiotherapy"@en, "adjuvant radiotherapy for skin cancer"@en ;
  schema:description "Radiotherapy cures most skin cancers without an operation, and is chosen when surgery would take too much, when someone is too frail for it, or when they refuse it. The one trial that compared it head to head with surgery found surgery better on both cure and appearance, which is why it is the second choice and not the first."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/radiotherapy-for-skin-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1997.343>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.77.0941> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/skin-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/basal-cell-carcinoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/cutaneous-scc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/electron-beam-therapy-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/surgical-margins-keratinocyte-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/perineural-invasion/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/avril-surgery-versus-radiotherapy-bcc/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/trog-05-01/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/c-post/> .