CyberKnife - Melanoma - Physician Information

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Stereotactic Radiosurgery/Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Melanoma:
Spine Metastases
CyberKnife® radiosurgery for spinal metastatic melanoma lesions has produced an impressive 96% response rate, a figure that seems even more impressive when one considers that the majority of these lesions had already recurred after “conventional” spinal radiotherapy prior to their radiosurgical re-treatment (21)

Intradural extramedullary lesion consistent
with metastatic melanoma

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

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