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The treatment of vulvar cancer consists of upfront surgery, typically radical vulvectomy or wide local excision in select patients with small well-lateralized tumors. Most patients undergo bilateral inguinofemoral dissections, particularly those found to have tumor invasion >3 mm, lymphovascular invasion (LVI) and/or high-grade disease.
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Mundt, A.J., Yashar, C., Mell, L.K. (2013). Vulvar Cancer. In: Lee, N., Lu, J. (eds) Target Volume Delineation and Field Setup. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28860-9_23
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