Adjuvant postoperative radiotherapy to the cervical lymph nodes in cutaneous melanoma: Is there any benefit for high-risk patients?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3022-3027

  Moncrieff, Marc D ^a,b   Martin, Richard ^a   O'Brien, Christopher J ^a,b   Shannon, Kerwin F ^a   Clark, Jonathan R ^a   Gao, Kan ^a   McCarthy, William M ^a   Thompson, John F ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55149089926     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0087-8     Document Type: Article

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