Palliative radiotherapy for malign melanoma: a case report
TURK ONKOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY, cilt.21, sa.3, ss.151-155, 2006 (ESCI, TRDizin)
- 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.