title: The worth of radiotherapy in malignant melanomas.
abstract: A new approach for the evaluation of the effectiveness of various forms of treatment of malignant melanomas is presented. Factors influencing the survival time from initiation of therapy until death were statistically analyzed in 548 patients who died from malignant melanoma. In slowly developing malignancies X-ray therapy was found to be superior to therapeutic methods.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors