Palliative radiotherapy for malign melanoma: a case report

YÜRÜT ÇALOĞLU V., Caloglu M., Tokatli F., KOÇAK Z., ÇOŞAR ALAS R., İBİŞ K., ...Daha Fazla

TURK ONKOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY, cilt.21, sa.3, ss.151-155, 2006 (ESCI, TRDizin) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Dergi Adı: TURK ONKOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.151-155
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Malignant melanoma, melanoma/pathology/radiotherapy, neoplasms, multiple primary/pathology/radiotherapy
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Malignant melanoma is a skin cancer with poor prognosis. Historically melanoma has been thought of as a relatively radioresistant tumour. Nowadays, radiation delivered according to hypofractionated schedule is the most used, although there are few data confirm that this schedule improves the therapeutic impact. We report a case, with stage IV malignant melanoma, whose tumoral bleeding was palliated successfully giving 20 Gy external radiotherapy in 5 fractionations.