This presentation focuses on the changes most likely to affect dermatology practice now: adjuvant therapy after definitive local treatment, emerging response-guided strategies designed to reshape subsequent surgery or radiation, and the movement of immunotherapy into earlier disease.
Three themes
Adjuvant therapy becomes real
C-POST establishes a postoperative role for cemiplimab in a selected, very-high-risk CSCC population.
Response starts to guide care
De-Squamate, MATISSE, and FIRST move beyond measuring response toward adapting subsequent local treatment.
Immunotherapy moves earlier
CLEAR-CSCC and related studies test whether systemic or intralesional immunotherapy can challenge surgery as the automatic first step for selected disease.