Stage III melanoma in the axilla: Patterns of regional recurrence after surgery with and without adjuvant radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 702-708

  Pinkham, Mark B ^a,c   Foote, Matthew C ^a,c   Burmeister, Elizabeth ^a,b   Thomas, Janine ^a   Meakin, Janelle ^a   Smithers, B Mark ^a,c   Burmeister, Bryan H ^a,c  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIATION THERAPIES; CONTROL RATES; IN-FIELD; METHODS AND MATERIALS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; STAGE III; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

DERMATOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; SURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AXILLA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879245355     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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