title: The effect of immediately preoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in the surgical treatment of primary cutaneous malignant melanoma.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Phipps
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Godfrey
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Durrant
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Millard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*