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| Title |
Adjuvant Postoperative Radiotherapy to the Cervical Lymph Nodes in Cutaneous Melanoma: Is There Any Benefit for High-Risk Patients?
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| Published in |
Annals of Surgical Oncology, October 2008
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| DOI | 10.1245/s10434-008-0087-8 |
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| Authors |
Marc D. Moncrieff, Richard Martin, Christopher J. O’Brien, Kerwin F. Shannon, Jonathan R. Clark, Kan Gao, William M. McCarthy, John F. Thompson |
| Abstract |
The use of adjuvant radiotherapy after lymph node dissection for metastatic melanoma remains controversial. This study examined the effectiveness of adjuvant radiotherapy in controlling regional disease in high-risk patients. A total of 716 patients were identified from a large prospective database who underwent cervical lymph node surgery between 1990 and 2004. Patients with high-risk disease were offered radiotherapy (n = 129), and this group was compared with the group of patients who did not receive radiotherapy (n = 587) in the same period. Radiotherapy did not improve regional control in patients who had metastatic melanoma of the cervical lymph nodes (P = .2). There were 10% fewer regional recurrences in patients with extracapsular spread who received adjuvant radiotherapy, although this was not statistically significant (P = .34). Adjuvant radiotherapy conferred no overall survival benefit to patients with nodal metastases (P = .39). There was a statistically significant trend for worse survival with increasing nodal tumor burden that remained unchanged with adjuvant radiotherapy. This large, nonrandomized retrospective study found no evidence to support the use of adjuvant radiotherapy for high-risk melanoma. A multicenter randomized, controlled trial investigating this important clinical dilemma is advocated. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 1 | 4% |
| South Africa | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 26 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 6 | 21% |
| Other | 5 | 18% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 7 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 71% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 4% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 4% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 3 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 July 2016.
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