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Radiotherapy for Melanoma:
Primary treatment
Although melanoma is typically regarded as one of the “radioresistant” malignancies, a high percentage of primary lentigo maligna melanoma lesions have actually been cured by high dose per fraction radiotherapy, in patients who have received radiotherapy for superficially extensive lesions to avoid a disfiguring operation (10). Radiotherapy also appears to be a useful surgical adjuvant in primary melanoma of head and neck origin, providing a high regional control rate above the clavicles, allowing some patients to avoid a full neck dissection (11 ,12).

Lentigo Maligna Lesion

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Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist

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