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Radiotherapy for Primary and Regional Melanoma

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Radiation therapy (RT) plays a role in the management of cutaneous melanoma in definitive, adjuvant, and palliative settings. The role for RT in early stage primary melanoma, for which the treatment is adequate excision, is limited. Desmoplastic melanoma and those with neurotropism invasion are exceptions, due to frequent local recurrence. The greatest controversy regarding RT lies with its use in stage III disease, particularly as postoperative treatment after regional lymph node dissection. This chapter presents the evidence and illustrative cases for RT in locoregional melanoma.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Radiation Oncology, Melanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney, North Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Angela M. Hong

  2. Radiation Oncology, Orange General Hospital, Orange, NSW, Australia

    Graham Stevens

  3. Bathurst Rural Clinical School, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia

    Graham Stevens

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Correspondence to Angela M. Hong .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA

    Charles Balch

  2. Georgetown Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Michael Atkins

  3. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Claus Garbe

  4. Division of Surgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Jeffrey Gershenwald

  5. Department of Dermatology, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY, USA

    Allan C. Halpern

  6. Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    John M. Kirkwood

  7. Divsions of Cancer Medicine and Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Grant A. McArthur

  8. Melanoma Institute of Australia, Wollstonecraft, Australia

    John F. Thompson

  9. Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Arthur J. Sober

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Hong, A.M., Stevens, G. (2019). Radiotherapy for Primary and Regional Melanoma. In: Balch, C., et al. Cutaneous Melanoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46029-1_25-1

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