Palliative radiotherapy for malign melanoma: a case report

Abstract

Malignant melanoma is a skin cancer with poor prognosis. Historically melanoma has been thought of as a relatively radioresistant tumour. Nowadays, radiation delivered according to hypofractionated schedule is the most used, although there are few data confirm that this schedule improves the therapeutic impact. We report a case, with stage IV malignant melanoma, whose tumoral bleeding was palliated successfully giving 20 Gy external radiotherapy in 5 fractionations.

Keywords

• Melanoma,Aged,Male,Radiotherapy,Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Palliative Care

Bir olgu nedeniyle malign melanomlarda palyatif radyoterapi

Öz

Malign melanom oldukça kötü prognozlu bir cilt kanseri türüdür. Genel olarak radyorezistan olduğu düşünülmektedir. Günümüzde bu hastalığın tedavisinde sıklıkla hipofraksiyone radyoterapi şemaları kullanılmakla birlikte, standart tedavi şemasını belirleyebilecek literatür çalışmaları bulunmamaktadır. Bu yazıda, evre IV malign melanom tanılı, kanaması 5 fraksiyonda toplam 20 Gy eksternal radyoterapi ile etkin ve güvenli bir şekilde tedavi edilen bir olgu sunuldu.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Malign melanom, melanom/patoloji/radyoterapi, neoplazm, multipl birincil/patoloji/radyoterapi.

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