The role of adjuvant radiotherapy in the local management of desmoplastic melanoma

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1361-1368

  Guadagnolo, B Ashleigh ^a   Prieto, Victor ^a   Weber, Randal ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Zagars, Gunar K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adjuvant irradiation; desmoplastic melanoma; local control; perineural invasion; prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHARITIS; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERINEURAL INVASION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; XEROSTOMIA;

ADJUVANT IRRADIATION; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; LOCAL CONTROL; PERINEURAL INVASION; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899490109     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28415     Document Type: Article

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