Roles of adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy for desmoplastic melanoma

Melanoma Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-41

  Oliver, Daniel E ^a   Patel, Kirtesh R ^a   Switchenko, Jeffrey ^d   Parker, Douglas ^c   Lawson, David H ^b   Delman, Keith A ^c   Kudchadkar, Ragini R ^b   Khan, Mohammad K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emory University ^*  (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Desmoplastic; Local recurrence; Melanoma; Prognostic factors; Radiation; Radiotherapy; Regional; Risk factors; Salvage

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84955343450     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: 14735636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0000000000000201     Document Type: Article

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