Abstract
Background:
For patients who have experienced a keloid recurrence at a site previously treated by
surgery and radiotherapy, the efficacy of a further course of radiotherapy for treatment of this recurrence has not been previously reported as a distinct study outcome.This study reports such results. The results of two series of long-term audits of recurrence rates of keloid tumour's, following surgical excision of the keloid and administration of a single (10Gy) dose of superficial X-ray radiotherapy (SXRT) within 24 hours, have previously been reported in 2003(ref.1) & 2022 (ref.2). The study period for the second series of patient treatments has now been extended to January 2025 and, during this entire second series, keloid recurrences were re-treated with fractionated SXRT. The outcome of this re-treatment is now reported.