Photodynamic therapy for facial skin cancer developed in the zone of previous radiotherapy (clinical case) [ФОТОдИНАМИчЕСКАя ТЕРАПИя ПРИ РАКЕ КОЖИ ЛИЦА, РАЗВИВШЕГОСя В ЗОНЕ ПРЕдШЕСТВУюЩЕЙ ЛУчЕВОЙ ТЕРАПИИ (КЛИНИчЕСКОЕ НАбЛюдЕНИЕ)]

The results of a 13-year clinical observation of a patient after treatment for basal cell carcinoma of the skin of the right cheek Ist cT1N0M0 are presented. The history of the course of the disease is associated with the fact that the patient underwent radiation therapy in early childhood for hemangioma of the lower eyelid of the right eye and right cheek. In 2008, against the background of post-radiation changes in the area of the right cheek, basal cell carcinoma was diagnosed at the Moscow Oncological Research Institute. P.A. Herzen. At the Center for Laser and Photodynamic Diagnostics and Tumor Therapy, the patient underwent organ-preserving PDT treatment. A course of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with 5-aminolevulic acid was carried out. Subsequently, the patient was followed up until 2021 without relapse in the PDT area. In 2016, the patient was diagnosed with a relapse of the disease in the form of a new focus of basal cell carcinoma of the upper eyelid skin on the right Iast cT1N0M0. The patient underwent a course of PDT with a chlorin e6-based photosensitizer. Complete regression of the tumor was achieved, the period of relapse-free follow-up was 5 years. © 2021 Russian Photodynamic Association. All rights reserved.