title: [Choroidal melanoma stage T2 higher than 6.0 mm: organ-preserving treatment with brachytherapy and transpupillary thermotherapy vs enucleation? Survival analysis].
abstract: The aim of the study was to compare survival rates of patients with stage T2 choroidal melanoma (CM) with prominence more than 6.0 mm after eye-preserving treatment using Ru-106 brachytherapy (BT) combined with transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) and after primary enucleation. The main group included patients treated with BT alone or combined with simultaneous TTT. Patients with CM after primary enucleation served as control. The groups were standardized in terms of age (p = 0.063), mean prominence (p > 0.149), mean maximal base diameter (p > 0.85), number of unfavorable localized tumors (juxtapapillary and ciliochoroidal) (p = 0.246), follow-up duration (p > 0.23). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed 5 year level of metastasing after eye-preserving treatment as high as 16%, after enucleation--13% (p > 0.96). Eye-preserving treatment using BT combined with TTT in patients with CM with prominence less than 10.0 mm (T2N0M0) allows to preserve eye as an organ and to save some degree of useful visual acuity. This treatment strategy can be considered an appropriate option.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Iarovoĭ
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Magaramov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods*; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D003657:Decision Making; D015353:Eye Enucleation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends