How do you best palliate metastatic skin and subcutaneous melanoma lesions?
Do you hypofractionate or add any concurrent systemic therapy? What specific dose-fractionation regimens do you recommend?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
As with most palliative radiotherapy, hypofractionation is appropriate for most melanoma metastases in the skin and subcutaneous tissues. When giving palliative radiotherapy to the skin, it is important to be cognizant of the area of skin being irradiated, and underlying organs at risk. ...
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