Considerations Regarding Mohs Surgery for Early-Stage Merkel Cell Carcinoma —Reply

In Reply We appreciate the interest in our article by Faries and Venna et al as well as their comments on the analysis. While we agree that there are inherent limitations to retrospective studies of survival outcomes using registry data, we believe that it is prudent to glean what insights we can from these datasets given the lack of large-scale studies of rare cancers, such as Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), in the existing literature.
Source: JAMA Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Source Type: research