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  • Title: The effect of immediately preoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in the surgical treatment of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma.
    Author: Phipps AR, Godfrey AM, Durrant KR, Millard PR.
    Journal: Br J Plast Surg; 1992 Jan; 45(1):30-3. PubMed ID: 1737204.
    Abstract:
    A historical series of patients with primary cutaneous malignant melanoma is reviewed. These patients had been treated with a single therapeutic dose of irradiation to the tumour and surrounding skin immediately before surgical excision. Some patients had also received a single necrotising dose of radiotherapy to the tumour itself. Recurrence and survival rates have been examined retrospectively in the light of reviewed histology, and compared with other published series. Preoperative radiotherapy was found to have no significant influence on the outcome of surgical treatment of primary malignant melanoma.
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