Radiotherapy influences local control in patients with desmoplastic melanoma

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1369-1378

  Strom, Tobin ^a   Caudell, Jimmy J ^a   Han, Dale ^b   Zager, Jonathan S ^a,c   Yu, Daohai ^a,d   Cruse, C Wayne ^a,c   Marzban, Suroosh S ^a   Messina, Jane L ^a,c   Trotti, Andy M ^a   Sondak, Vernon K ^a,c   Rao, Nikhil G ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

control; desmoplastic; local neoplasm recurrence; melanoma; radiation; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN FIBROSIS; TELANGIECTASIA; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY;

CONTROL; DESMOPLASTIC; LOCAL NEOPLASM RECURRENCE; MELANOMA; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899472515     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28412     Document Type: Article

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