Surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy for cutaneous melanoma considered high-risk for local-regional recurrence

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 320-322

  Mendenhall, William M ^a   Shaw, Christiana ^a   Amdur, Robert J ^a   Kirwan, Jessica ^a   Morris, Christopher G ^a   Werning, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IN-TRANSIT METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879687296     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: 1532818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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