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How do you best palliate metastatic skin and subcutaneous melanoma lesions?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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. Small areas ...

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