title: Wishful thinking, unicentric empiricism and the everyday world of the medical melanomologist.
abstract: Despite the general advances in the chemotherapy of malignancies, progress comes slow in the management of patients with disseminated melanoma. Unreflected enthusiasm and frustrated scepticism are the scylla and charybdis between which the physician tries to choose the right way.
authors.forename: U R
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Kleeberg
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000379:methods; D008545:Melanoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care