Melanoma
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Radiotherapy for Melanoma
Primary treatment
Although melanoma is typically regarded as one of the “radioresistant” malignancies, a high percentage of superficially extensive primary melanoma lesions have actually been cured by high dose per treatment radiotherapy, in patients who have received radiotherapy to avoid a disfiguring operation (10). Radiotherapy also appears useful in controlling neck disease (lymph nodes) in primary melanoma of head and neck origin, allowing some patients to avoid more radical surgery (neck dissection) (11,12).
Lentigo Maligna Lesion
Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist