Surgery and adjuvant therapies in the treatment of stage IV melanoma: our experience in 84 patients.
Langenbecks Arch Surg
; 394(6): 1079-84, 2009 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND AIMS:
Survival rates of patients with stage IV melanoma are poor Median survival is 7-8 months and 5-year survival rates about 5%. There is no agreement on the role of surgery at this stage. Most patients with metastatic melanoma are not able to undergo resection and usually are sent to systemic chemo- and immunotherapy. PATIENTS ANDMETHODS:
Eighty-four patients operated on for stage IV melanoma were evaluated. Of them, 61.9% were submitted to reiterative surgery with 168 operations and 182 surgical procedures overall. A total of 90.5% was submitted to adjuvant therapies according to aggressive and reiterated schedules chemotherapy, immunotherapy, dendritic cells vaccine, infusion of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, local therapies as electrochemotherapy.RESULTS:
The mean overall survival (Kaplan-Meier) was 56.7 months (1 year 72.1%, 3 years 46.5%, 5 years 23.16%). The survival of reiterative surgery was significatively longer than single surgery (62.7 vs 42.4 months, median 50.9 vs 16.0), p = 0.03. Multivariated Cox analysis was performed for disease-free interval, repeated surgery, adjuvant therapies, and site of metastasis according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer Reiterative surgery was shown as an independent prognostic factor (p < 0.05).CONCLUSION:
Metastatic resection associated with adjuvant therapy may improve overall survival and, in some instances, can provide long-term survival, whatever site and numbers of metastasis. In our series, reiterative surgery was more significatively efficient in improving survival than single-time surgery.
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias Cutâneas
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Melanoma
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Langenbecks Arch Surg
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália