Even small localized tumors are increasingly recognized as possessing metastatic potential.

Radiation therapy: 4,200 rads to 5,000 rads given for a period of 4 weeks to patients with localized but unresectable tumors.

Kaposi's sarcoma is usually a localized tumor that can be treated either surgically or through local irradiation.

For discrete, localized tumors, surgery is often followed by radiation therapy of the excised area to reduce the chance of recurrence.

This occurs in 40% of localized tumors and in 60% of cases of widespread disease.

Larger localized tumors are removed surgically.

Small and localized tumors are treated surgically with curative intent.

Proton treatment is notably valuable for treating localized, isolated, solid tumors before they spread to other tissues and to the rest of the body.

A localized tumor that is completely removed with pathologically clear margins and no regional lymph node involvement.

A localized tumor with gross residual disease after incomplete removal or biopsy only.